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By SIBYL MARVIN HUSE 


TWELVE BASKETS FULL 

Christ’s offspring 

SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOR 
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SIBYL MARVIN HUSE 

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AUTHOR OF “ TWELVE BASKETS FULL,” 

“ SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOUR ” 

Christ’s offspring or spiritual generation 




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Made in the United States of America 



PART I is dedicated to Charles A. L. Totten 
whose tireless devotion to Anglo-Israel calls 
forth admiration and gratitude from students of 
Prophecy and History. 

PART II, to my teacher, Augusta E. Stetson, 
who, as pioneer, builder, and citizen in the New 
Jerusalem of spiritual consciousness, has taught 
thousands to make their calling and election 
sure, in this City Four-Square. 

PART III, to the Discoverer, Founder, and 
Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, 
whose God-inspired Message to the world is the 
confirmation of Prophecy and points to the 
culmination of History. 


The Author 


FOREWORD 


lyiR. CHARLES TOTTEN, First Lieuten- 
A ant in the United States Army, gradu¬ 
ate of the West Point Military Academy (June 
13, 1873) an d sometime Professor of Military 
Science at Yale University, is the American 
authority on the Anglo-Israel Identity Ques¬ 
tion. In the preface to one of his numerous 
volumes, comprising the “Our Race Series,” 
he says: 

The problem of Our Origin and Destiny 
would have remained unsolved forever had 
not the clue and counterpart of History been set 
forth beforehand in the sacred pages. And 
herein is wisdom satisfied with its own vitality; 
for while the conclusions of the so-called wise, 
who have gone everywhere for light but to the 
Word of God, are not only at deadly variance 
in their several schools, but are severally un¬ 
satisfactory to their own adherents, we find that 
the very reverse obtains within the college of 
students who equip themselves with Faith ere 
they begin the search. Their ends are antagonis- 


jfaretuorb 


tic, for discord sitteth in the chair of the world’s 
philosophy, and harmony crowns the delibera¬ 
tions of those that fear the Lord. 

Further quoting from Mr. Totten: 

God cast us out according to the Law, and we 
were sifted among the Gentiles far and wide. Yet 
not a kernel fell upon the earth, and when Judah 
turned her back upon the better Covenant, God 
indeed turned to the Gentiles, but he took from 
thence “the nation” he had aforetime cast into 
their furnace for that very end. 

And what matters it forsooth, if in the interim 
we lost our paths nor knew from whence we 
sprang, so long as He was conversant with all 
our ways and in the day of our awakening hath 
touched our eyes! 

But some will say, wherein then is the Gentile 
hope, and how doth Christ attain unto the other 
sons of men? Thou blind, and dull of under¬ 
standing, not to know that all the Scriptures 
seek fulfilment in their order, and that by the 
very process whereby Israel was drawn out, the 
Gentiles, who were left had Christ preached to 
them as a witness and that the blessing yet to 
come upon all the other nations of the earth will 
take its rise only in our awakening, and their own 
astonishment. 

The Secret of History , p. xii. 


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AUTHOR’S NOTE 


Part I is made up almost entirely of abstracts 
from: 


The Our Race Series 
Charles A. L. Totten 

Israel’s Wanderings 
Oxonian 

Dan, The Pioneer of Israel 
Colonel Gawler 

Anglo Israel 
Rev. W. H. Poole, D.D. 

The Squier’s Manuscript 
Agnes Evans-Lloyd 

Hours with the Bible 
Cunningham Geikie, D.D., LL.D. 

History of the Jews 
Josephus 

TN many instances, several pages of reading 
* matter from these authors has been con¬ 
densed into a single paragraph. In others, 
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citations have been given at length, verbatim. 
In order to avoid confusion of quotes, inner 
quotes, points of suspension and the use of 
such terms as, this author says in substance, 
or like expressions, I have decided, in this 
note, to ascribe credit to the above men¬ 
tioned authors and at the same time express 
my gratitude for the many delightful hours 
I have passed in reading their thrillingly 
interesting volumes. I recommend a care¬ 
ful study of each of the authors mentioned. 


viii 


ISAAC’S BLESSING OF JACOB 


G OD Almighty bless thee, and make thee 
fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou 
mayest be a multitude of people; And give 
thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to 
thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit 
the land wherein thou art a stranger, which 
God gave unto Abraham. Genesis 28:3, 4. 

JACOB’S BLESSING OF HIS TWELVE 
SONS 

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, 
Gather yourselves together, that I may tell 
you that which shall befall you in the last 
days. Gather yourselves together, and hear, 
ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel 
your father. 

Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, 
and the beginning of my strength, the excel¬ 
lency of dignity, and the excellency of power. 
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; be¬ 
cause thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; 
then defiledst thou it: he went up to my 
couch. 


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fsfrael, prince o! <@ob 


Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments 
of cruelty are in their habitations. O my 
soul, come not thou into their secret; unto 
their assembly, mine honour, be not thou 
united: for in their anger they slew a man, 
and in their self-will they digged down a wall. 
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and 
their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide 
them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren 
shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of 
thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow 
down before thee. Judah is a lion’s whelp: 
from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he 
stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an 
old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre 
shall* not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver 
from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and 
unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s 
colt unto the choice vine; he washed his gar¬ 
ments in wine, and his clothes in the blood 
of grapes: His eyes shall be red with wine, 
and his teeth white with milk. 

Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the 
sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; 
and his border shall be unto Zidon. 

Issachar is a strong ass crouching down be¬ 
tween two burdens: And he saw that rest was 


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3(siracl, Prime of (gob 


good, and the land that it was pleasant; and 
bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a ser¬ 
vant unto tribute. 

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the 
tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by 
the way, an adder in the path, that biteth 
the horse heels so that his rider shall fall 
backward. 

I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. 

Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he 
shall overcome at the last. 

Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he 
shall yield royal dainties. 

Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth 
goodly words. 

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful 
bough by a well; whose branches run over 
the wall: The archers have sorely grieved 
him, and shot at him, and hated him: But 
his bow abode in strength, and the arms of 
his hands were made strong by the hands of 
the mighty God of Jacob: (from thence is the 
shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Even by the 
God of thy father, who shall help thee; and 
by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with 
blessings of heaven above, blessings of the 
deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, 
and of the womb: The blessings of thy father 
have prevailed above the blessings of my 


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progenitors unto the utmost bound of the 
everlasting hills: they shall be on the head 
of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of 
him that was separate from his brethren. 

Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the 
morning he shall devour the prey, and at 
night he shall divide the spoil. 

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: 
and this is it that their father spake unto 
them, and blessed them: every one accord¬ 
ing to his blessing he blessed them. 

Genesis 49:1-28. 

BALAAM’S BLESSING OF THE TWELVE 
TRIBES 

Balak the king of Moab hath brought me 
from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, 
saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, 
defy Israel. How shall I curse, whom God 
hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom 
the Lord hath not defied? For from the top 
of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I be¬ 
hold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and 
shall not be reckoned among the nations. 

God is not a man, that he should lie; 
neither the son of man, that he should repent: 
hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath 
he spoken, and shall he not make it good? 

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Stfrael, $rtnce of (gob 

Behold, I have received commandment to 
bless: and he hath blessed: and I cannot 
reverse it. 

He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, 
neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: 
the Lord his God is with him, and the shout 
of a king is among them. God brought them 
out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength 
of an unicorn. Surely there is no enchant¬ 
ment against Jacob, neither is there any 
divination against Israel: according to this 
time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, 
What hath God wrought! Behold, the people 
shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up him¬ 
self as a young lion: he shall not lie down until 
he eat of the prey, and drink of the blood of the 
slain. 

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw 
Israel abiding in his tents according to their 
tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. 
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam 
the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose 
eyes are open hath said: He hath said, 
which heard the words of God, which saw the 
vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, 
but having his eyes open. 

How goodly are they tents, O Jacob, and 
thy tabernacles, 0 Israel! As the valleys are 
they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s 

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Jterael, prince of (gob 


side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord 
hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the 
waters. He shall pour the water out of his 
buckets, and his seed shall be in many 
waters, and his king shall be higher than 
Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. 

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he 
hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he 
shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall 
break their bones, and pierce them through 
with his arrows. He couched, he lay down 
as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir 
him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, 
and cursed is he that curseth thee. 

And he took up his parable, and said, 
Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the 
man whose eyes are open hath said: He hath 
said, which heard the words of God, and 
knew the knowledge of the most High, which 
saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a 
trance, but having his eyes open: I shall see 
him, but not now: I shall behold him, but 
not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, 
and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and 
shall smite the corners of Moab, and de¬ 
stroy all the children of Sheth. And Edom 
shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a pos¬ 
session for his enemies* and Israel shall do 
valiantly. 


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3terael, Prime of (gob 


Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have 
dominion, and shall destroy him that re- 
maineth of the city. And when he looked on 
Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, 
Amalek was the first of the nations; but his 
latter end shall be that he perish for ever. 
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up 
his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling 
place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. 
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, 
until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. 

And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, 
who shall live when God doeth this! And ships 
shall come from the coast of Chittim, and 
shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict Eber 
and he also shall perish for ever. 

Numbers , Chapters 23 and 24. 

MOSES’ BLESSING OF THE TWELVE 
TRIBES 

And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses 
the man of God blessed the children of Israel 
before his death. And he said, The Lord 
came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto 
them; he shined forth from mount Paran, 
and he came with ten thousands of saints: 
from his right hand went a fiery law for them. 
Yea, he loved the people; and all his saints 


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Ssrael, prince of (gob 


are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy 
feet; every one shall receive of thy words. 

Moses commanded us a law, even the in¬ 
heritance of the congregation of Jacob. And 
he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of 
the people and the tribes of Israel were gath¬ 
ered together. 

Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not 
his men be few. And this is the blessing of 
Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of 
Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his 
hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an 
help to him from his enemies. 

And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim 
and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom 
thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom 
thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I 
have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge 
his brethren, nor knew his own children: for 
they have observed thy word, and kept thy 
covenant. They shall teach Jacob thy judg¬ 
ments, and Israel thy law: they shall put in¬ 
cense before thee, and hold burnt sacrifice 
upon thine altar. Bless, Lord, his substance, 
and accept the work of his hands: smite 
through the loins of them that rise against 
him, and of them that hate him, that they 
rise not again. 


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Ssrael, -jinnee of #ob 


And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of 
the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and 
the Lord shall cover him all' the day long, and 
he shall dwell between his shoulders. 

And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord 
be his land, for the precious things of heaven, 
for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth 
beneath. And for the precious fruits brought 
forth by the sun, and for the precious things 
put forth by the moon, and for the chief 
things of the ancient mountains, and for the 
precious things of the lasting hills, And for 
the precious things of the earth and fulness 
thereof, and for the good will of him that 
dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon 
the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the 
head of him that was separated from his 
brethren. His glory is like the firstling of his 
bullock, and his horns are like the horns of 
unicorns: with them he shall push the people 
together to the ends of the earth: and they 
are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they 
are the thousands of Manasseh. 

And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, 
in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. 
They shall call the people unto the mountain; 
there they shall offer sacrifices of righteous¬ 
ness: for they shall suck of the abundance of 
the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand. 

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3terael, prince of <@ob 


And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that en- 
largeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and tear- 
eth the arm with the crown of the head. And 
he provided the first part for himself, be¬ 
cause there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was 
he seated; and he came with the heads of the 
people, he executed the justice of the Lord, 
and his judgments with Israel. 

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: 
he shall leap from Bashan. And of Naphtali 
he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, 
and full with the blessing of the Lord: pos¬ 
sess thou the west and the south. And of 
Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with 
children; let him be acceptable to his breth¬ 
ren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 

Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as 
thy days, so shall thy strength be. There 
is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who 
rideth upon the heavens in thy help, and in 
his excellency upon the sky. The eternal God 
is thy refuge, and underneath are the ever¬ 
lasting arms: And he shall thrust out the 
enemy from before thee; and shall say, De¬ 
stroy them. 

Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the 
fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of 
corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop 
down dew. 

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Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto 
thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield 
of they help, and who is the sword of thy ex¬ 
cellency! And thine enemies shall be found 
liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon 
their high places. 


Deuteronomy 33 :i-29. 










PART I 

From Palestine to the Isles 
Afar Off 

I will send those that escape of them unto the 
nations ... to the isles afar off, that have not 
heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; 
and they shall declare my glory among the Gen¬ 
tiles. Isaiah 66:19. 


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FROM PALESTINE TO THE ISLES 
AFAR OFF 

OTANDING before his people upon the 
^ one hundred and twentieth anniversary, 
with eye undimmed and unabated natural 
force, skilled in all former knowledge, a 
prophet whom the Lord knew face to face 
and with his prophetic vision rendered keener, 
by the thought that he must leave his people, 
while they yet had to accomplish the crossing 
of Jordan and the conquest of Palestine, 

Moses summed up human history, in a 
sentence which condemns the entire modern 
library. 

When the Most High divided to the nations Duet, 
their inheritance, when he separated the sons 32:8,9 
of Adam, he set the bounds of the people ac¬ 
cording to the number of the children of Israel. 

For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the 
measure of his inheritance. 


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3terael, prince of (Sob 


Smith’s 

Bible 

Die. 


This sentence stands as the rock foun¬ 
dation of the Temple of History. 

A thorough understanding of the Scrip¬ 
ture’s use of the terms Hebrew, Israel, Judah 
and Jew must be gained and the distinction 
constantly kept in mind, by the student of 
history. Then he can intelligently grasp the 
import of prophecy and its amazing fulfilment 
in history. 

The word Hebrew first occurs as given to 
Abram, by the Canaanites, Genesis 14: 13, be¬ 
cause he had crossed the Euphrates. The name 
is derived from “dber, beyond, on the other side, ” 
Abraham and his posterity being called He¬ 
brews in order to express a distinction between 
the races east and west of the Euphrates. 

The term Hebrew would thus include 
Ishmaelites, Moabites, and Edomites, all 
of the stock of him who “crossed the 
Euphrates,” from the east. 

The name Israel was given to Jacob, 
Abraham’s grandson, to seal his self-conquest, 
in the heart-searching wrestle before the 
meeting with his. v brother whom he so un¬ 
necessarily had attempted to deceive and 
defraud. Consequently the term Israel may 

4 


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be applied, in its broadest sense, to all the 
descendants of Jacob, and was so used 
unvaryingly up to the time of the division 
of the tribes, in 975 b.c. 

From that time, the term Israel is specif¬ 
ically applied to the ten tribes who then 
separated from the other two. These ten 
comprise Reuben, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulon, 
Joseph (Manasseh and Ephraim), Benjamin, 
Dan, Naphtali, Gad and Asher, which com¬ 
pose the House or Kingdom of Israel, and 
are “Israelites.” 

Judah and Levi, the two remaining tribes, 
made up the House or Kingdom of Judah 
and are known as “Jews.” 

“Israel,” a broader term than “Judah” is 
used sometimes , even after the separation, to 
include the entire twelve tribes, but “Judah” 
with its derivative “Jew” never designates 
other than the tribe of Judah with its priest¬ 
hood, the tribe of Levi. 

The prominence of Palestine commences 
with the call of Abraham. Leaving the idol 
temples of Chaldea behind him, he journeys 
out of Ur and crosses the Euphrates, thus 
acquiring the name “Hebrew.” Isaac, then 
Jacob succeeded; but, as strangers, simply 

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3terael, prince of (Sob 


sojourned in the promised land. In the days 
of famine, Jacob and his twelve sons aban¬ 
doned it and went down into Egypt. 

Gen. 35 Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 

22-26 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, 
and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, 
and Zebulun: 

The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 

The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, 
and Naphtali: 

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, 
and Asher. 

Seventy went down with Jacob into Egypt, 
and for Joseph’s sake were kindly entreated 
and favored by the Pharaohs who knew him. 
The land of Goshen was assigned to them, 
and there they grew into a mighty nation. 
Skilled in all the arts and sciences of Egypt, 
they became its chief reliance. They formed 
the bulk of its army, of it ; s practical artisans, 
and workmen of every description and in¬ 
dustry and were its actual wealth producers. 

Egypt grew both jealous and oppressive, 
for it soon began to fear the consequences of 
having so powerful a foster nation growing up 
within its borders. But a higher and ever 
6 


Jfrom Palestine to tfje Meg &far 0it 


watchful providence turned this very change 
of policy into a blessing. The muscles of 
virtue are not all developed in prosperity and 
severe discipline was needed ere successful 
exodus could be accomplished. 

Hence, when one arose who knew not 
Joseph, in oppression’s school they learned 
“the tale of bricks.” 

There is a limit to endurance, and Israel 
was not chastened beyond it. The lash of 
the task-master over-reached itself and 
gained for the chosen people an unlooked for 
leader out of their adversity. However, a 
generation more was added to their dis¬ 
cipline, while the leader himself was taught 
new lessons in the wilderness of Midian, at 
Jethro’s feet. For although skilled in all the 
wisdom of Egypt, and polished in all the 
manners of the court of Pharaoh, an equally 
long sojourn, in the wilds of Arabia, was 
essential ere the experience of Moses was 
sufficiently ripened for the task before him. 

At last the day of bondage ceased, “and 
God heard their groaning, and God remem¬ 
bered his covenant with Abraham, with 
Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked 
upon the children of Israel and God had 

7 


3terael, prince of <®ob 


respect unto them.” But although the day 
of their deliverance from Egypt had arrived, 
they were not yet equipped to undertake 
the conquest of the promised land. 

Moses, than whom no greater general has 
appeared on earth, though reared to be a 
king, disdained the diadem of Egypt, and 
now returned to be the Michael of his people. 
He led up out of Egypt three and one half 
millions of people, and successfully con¬ 
voyed them with an army of 605,550 fighting 
men. 

For full forty unparalleled years they also 
travelled in the wilderness of Arabia, both 
taught of God and disciplined by nature. 

This pilgrimage was but an advanced and 
necessary grade in their national education, 
and was an essential prelude to the task which 
lay before them, at their journey’s end. 
Thereby alone they underwent a course of 
lessons whose purpose was of broader scope 
than mere bondage compassed, and were 
also gradually initiated into the principles of 
Theocracy and self-government. It was 
prolonged for an entire generation, and thus 
an opportunity was afforded for the full 
development of their own race-peculiarities. 

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jfrom Palestine to tfje 3 e leg Star €>ff 


Meantime they forgot the flavor of Egyptian 
flesh-pots. 

From the military point of view, the 
magnitude of this march was amazing. 
But to him who had formerly led the ever- 
victorious armies of Pharaoh, organization, 
administration, logistics, all of generalship, 
in fact, was a fully comprehended science. 
For this end, Moses had been reared amid 
the incidents and opportunities of Egypt and 
Midian. His career is a fact in history nor 
has there risen since, within or out of Israel, 
his equal as a statesman and a general. 

Joshua, schooled under such a teacher, was 
his able successor, and with a host at length 
fully disciplined and equipped for their 
undertaking, crossed the Jordan and made 
easy conquest of the promised land. 

The patience of this progress towards the 
land of promise proves that its strategy was 
providential and its leadership divine. No 
mere soldier of ambition would have dared to 
waste his years of opportunity beneath the 
frowns of Sinai, and the years of Moses were 
already more than humanly normal before 
the Exodus began. Nor could patriotism 
alone have compassed such a tireless under- 


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Jterael, $rince of <@ob 


taking. It was not merely the migration of a 
race, nor an aimless escape of a crude people 
from bondage. The whole spirit of the 
enterprise marks it as a deliberately planned 
effort—an example, without compeer, of 
national training looking towards a remote 
object, and patiently persisted in unto the 
time appointed. Thus Israel struggled to¬ 
wards the promised goal and took her place 
among the nations of the earth. 

Has the spirit of a people such as this 
expired ? 

Shall another race inherit Joseph’s birth¬ 
right ? 

But if preparation such as this was neces¬ 
sary to fit Israel for the conquest of Palestine, 
what limit and what term of years shall one 
assign wherein to fit her to possess the 
earth—her ultimate inheritance? 

The wilderness was Israel’s apprenticeship 
as a nation. In the next 456 years—from 
the Elders or Judges to the death of Solomon 
—they served their time as craftsmen at the 
science of self-government, and passed to the 
degree of perfect masters. 

After the entry of the tribes into Palestine, 
the land was apportioned to them. Levi 
10 


Jfrom Palestine to tfjc Jotcg afar €>ff 


was given no portion, for to him was assigned 
the care of the temple and the sacrificial 
ceremonies. Tithes were levied on all, for 
the support and maintenance of Levi. 
Joseph’s two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, 
had been adopted by Jacob, as his own sons, 
and ranked as heads of tribes; thus filling the 
measure twelve from which Levi had been 
taken. 

Under Barak and Deborah, Gideon and 
Samuel, the people went through a long 
colonial period. 

Under Saul they at last became 
confederated. 

Under David they were fully welded into a 
constitutional monarchy and the idea of 
union became a fact. 

Then at last came Israel’s golden age. 
The man of war was gathered to his fathers. 
Solomon sat upon the throne of David “and 
his kingdom was established greatly.” These 
were the glorious days of “all Israel.” 
Solomon’s long reign of forty years was 
profoundly peaceful and prosperous. 

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the 
earth for riches and for wisdom, and all the earth 


I Kingc 
10:23, 
24 


II 


3terael, $rittce of (Sob 


I Kings 
10:22 


sought to Solomon to hear his wisdom, which 
God had put in his heart. 

The navies of Solomon made voyages as 
long as any that are made today. 

For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish, 
with the navy of Hiram: once in three years 
came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and 
silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 

These navies sailed about the then known 
world, and were a ruling factor in a policy 
too vast to be of human origin and too remote 
in its results to be of human intent. By 
means of Solomon’s navies the borders of 
the earth were colonized. This is a literal 
fact, and the seed thus sown was planted for 
a purpose far beyond the compass of this 
great king’s merely human wisdom. From 
Spain to India we find traces of Solomon’s 
supremacy—his ministers gathered tribute 
at all the gates of commerce and sent the 
streams towards the temple at Jerusalem. 

Separation of Israel from Judah 

All the twelve sons of Jacob, in their tribal 
possessions, remained together under the one 


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government, up to and through the reign of 
Solomon, son of David, of the tribe of Judah. 

(975 b.c.) 

The Lord declared of David: 

Thine house and thy kingdom shall be es- II Sam. 
tablished for ever before thee: thy throne shall 7 :i6 
be established for ever. 

Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David I Kings 
his father; and his kingdom was established 2:12 
greatly. 

He shall build an house for my name; and he IChron. 
shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I 22:10 
will establish the throne of his kingdom over 
Israel for ever. 

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the i Kings 
Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did n:6, 
David his father. . . . Wherefore the Lord 11-13 
said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of 
thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and 
my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I 
will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will 
give it to thy servant (Jeroboam). Notwith¬ 
standing in thy days I will not do it for David 
thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the 
hand of thy son. Howbeit I will not rend away 
all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son 
for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s 
sake which I have chosen. 


13 


5«rael, Prince of <£5ob 


I Kings 
ii: 29- 
3i, 35 


I Kings 
11:36 


I Kings 
12:24 


And it came to pass at that time when Jero¬ 
boam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet 
Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and 
he had clad himself with a new garment; and 
they two were alone in the field: And Ahijah 
caught the new garment that was on him, and 
rent it in twelve pieces: And he said to Jero¬ 
boam, Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith the 
Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the 
kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will 
give ten tribes to thee: But I will take the king¬ 
dom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto 
thee, even ten tribes. 

Benjamin was given to Judah. 

That David my servant may have a light 
alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I 
have chosen me to put my name there. 

The ten tribed nation is the “kingdom.” 
Realizing this, Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, 
determined to make war on Jeroboam and 
the House of Israel , as the ten tribes were 
henceforth called. But this word came: 

Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor 
fight against your brethren, the children of 
Israel; return every man to his house; for this 
thing is from me. 


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Here let us pause to consider the relative 
positions of the tribes. Reuben was the 
firstborn of Israel but 

... his birthright was given unto the sons of IChron. 
Joseph, the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not 5 u, 2 
to be reckoned after the birthright. For Judah 
prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the 
chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s. 

Jealousy sprang up between Ephraim, 
Joseph’s son, and the other tribes because of 
the birthright and was the cause of frequent 
dissensions. Constantly it happened that 
there was a confederation, under the lead of 
Ephraim, in opposition to Judah, the other 
prominent tribe. This ultimately led to the 
complete severance of Israel from Judah. 

This separation of the tribes occurred B.c. 

975. The ten tribes formed the House or 
Kingdom of Israel. 

Their territory lay to the north of Judah 
and they had as their capital city Samaria, 
where a separate line of kings paralleled 
Judah’s line. There also sprang up a sepa¬ 
rate temple worship, with its priesthood. 

Thus the Davidic empire broke in twain, and 
for the next 255 years the Hebrews existed 
15 


Israel, $rittce of (Soil 


I Chron. 
5:26 


II Kings 
15:29 


as a dual kingdom. These two monarchies 
were as absolutely severed, and as politically 
separated as are France and Spain today or 
as England and America. 

Revolted Israel—the Ten Tribed Kingdom 
—willful in idolatry, and schismatic in her 
rulers and religion, went from bad to worse 
until the “sin of Samaria was full.” During 
her two hundred and fifty-five years of inde¬ 
pendent existence, 975-720 B.c., this people 
gradually lost most of its Mosaic lore, and ex¬ 
changed the laws of Jehovah for those of Baal. 
Ephraim had thus returned unto his idols, and 
the Lord commanded His prophets to “let 
him alone.’ ’ As “ a spoiled child, ’ ’ an “ unruly 
heifer’’ and “a silly dove,” left temporarily to 
its own devices and ruin, the climax of Eph¬ 
raim quickly followed. Of course there is no 
help in Baal, so at last the crisis came. 

And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of 
Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath- 
Pileser king of Assyria, and he carried them 
away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, 
and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought 
them into Halah and Habor and Hara, and to 
the river Gozan, unto this day. 

In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tig- 
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lath-Pileser king of Assyria, and took ... all 
the land of Naphtali and carried them captive 
to Assyria. 

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assy¬ 
ria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into 
Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor 
by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the 
Medes. 

For so it was, that the children of Israel had 
sinned against the Lord their God, which had 
brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from 
under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and 
had feared other gods, and walked in the 
statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out 
from before the children of Israel, and of the 
kings of Israel, which they had made . . . there¬ 
fore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and 
removed them out of his sight: there was none 
left but the tribe of Judah only ... so was 
Israel carried away out of their own land to 
Assyria unto this day. 

In the days which chronologically mark the 
national origines of Babylon, Persia, Mace¬ 
donia and Rome, the deportation of the now 
famous “Lost Tribes” was begun, continued 
and accomplished. 

Numerous prophecies still point to the 
separate existence of the nation of Israel, 
17 


II Kings 
17:6-8, 
18, 23 


3ferael, $rince of <©oti 


Deut. 
28:15- 
68 

Matt. 

27:25 

Deut. 
28:1-14 


with a future entirely different from that 
foretold of Judah until the glorious revelation 
of both, in the understanding of their spiritual 
reality and union as sons of God. 

The Jews definitely brought the curses 
upon themselves by rejecting Christ with the 
cry, * ‘ His blood be on us, and on our children.” 
The Ten Tribes, the main mass of the Hebrew 
nation, were not in the land to share in this 
crowning crime. The blessings would begin 
to take effect at some period in the history of 
the nation of Israel, the Ten Tribes. The 
view of the future history of the world, from 
the time of Nebuchadnezzar to the very 
end of time , is given in the prophecy of 
Daniel. Four empires are there portrayed 
as succeeding one another in supremacy. 
The four are temporal empires and are 
readily identified. The fifth and last empire 
which replaces all these is generally taken to 
be the spiritual kingdom of Christ. In its 
earlier stages, however, it must appear to be a 
temporal empire—none other than the Saxon 
or Stone Empire of Israel—the destined 
instrument for the redemption of all the 
nations. 

Four kingdoms arose, and Israel—the fifth 

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kingdom—was “cut out” of Mount Lebanon 
and cast away upon the mountains of Media. 

But God said, Ephraim is “a pleasant child,” Jer. 31 
a “dear son,” “how shall I give thee up, ^ 
Ephraim?” There was no such intention II;8 ’ 
in Jehovah’s plan. Ephraim was the Prodi¬ 
gal Son: the Savior’s parable exactly counter¬ 
parts this incident in Israel’s history. 
Punishment has no other object than to 
chasten and reclaim, then use the chosen 
instrument, retempered in adversity, for 
grander and more universal projects among 
all mankind. 

In the shortly succeeding revolt of Media 
from Assyria, these deported tribes them¬ 
selves escaped from Media, whence their exit 
was relief, and from Assyria, whose shackles 
had been loosed. This greater exodus was 
through the mountains of Caucasus—the 
pass of Dariel and by the fortress still called 
the “Gate of Israel.” As they passed they 
became lost to records; that is, consecutive 
history, both secular and sacred, lost them 
in the northern wilderness, even as Egypt for 
a time had lost them through the sea. 

Herodotus tells us that in his day, 450 B.c., 
a warlike, virtuous, and powerful race, called 


19 


3terael, $rtme of <@ob 


the Cumbri, lived around the northern coasts 
of the Black Sea, and centrally at the Crimea. 
The Russian museums of today are filled 
with the undoubtedly Hebrew relics of this 
people. By a strange coincidence the first 
great Anglo-Russian war, which had its 
origin in disputes about Jerusalem, was 
finally settled in this very region. 

Herodotus further tells us that this people 
had originally come from Media, the which 
he adds, however, had not been their birth 
place and puts them there, in Media, i.e., as 
sojourners only, about 600 B.C. 

In the exploration of Assyria, the tablets of 
Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon, and Shalmaneser, 
have been discovered. These corroborate 
the scriptural account of Israel’s deportation. 
They are now in the British Museum. One 
of them reads to this effect. 

“I, Shalmaneser, descended upon the cities 
of Samaria,” “and took captive the Beth 
Khumree .” “I left none of them.” “I put 
them in the cities of the Medes.” 

The tablets of all these conquerors refer to 
Israel under the name of Beth Khumree ,— 
Kumri, Cumri, or Omri. Omri, king of 
Israel, built the chief or capital city of 


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Samaria and did most to corrupt and central¬ 
ize this schismatic people. The land and city 
is known to us by the Greek name, Samaria: 
but it was known to the Babylonians and 
Assyrians as Khumree. To them, Khumree 
was the capital of Beth Khumree. Beth is 
the Hebrew for house; Cumri is the Hebrew 
for priest of Baal; a very significant deriva¬ 
tion, since it was for Baal or Druidic wor¬ 
ship that the Lord cast Israel out. The Bible 
sends Israel into capitivity for the sin of 
Samaria. They were Cymri—hence God 
cast them out. 

Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon and Shalmaneser, 
all knew these people as the “House of Baal,” 
or the Khumree. Herodotus preserves this 
name, Cumbri, which links their history and 
traces them to where with united testi¬ 
mony both the Scriptures and the monuments 
place them. Sharon Turner, working back¬ 
ward from the western isles, shows us that 
the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Danes and Nor¬ 
mans were all kindred, all Cimri, all Scyth¬ 
ians, all Scotts, all from the Crimea and the 
Asia Minor and Black Sea region of 
Herodotus. 

On and on, leaving as its trail all the Dons 


21 


Mtatl, prince of <@ob 


and Dans of early European Geography, as it 
moved toward the ocean, this stream of 
pilgrimage descended, ploughing its way 
through the Celtic flood which had preceded 
it. Pioneered by sons of Dan it paused 
awhile in the Kymbric Chersonesus, and on 
the shores of Denmark—Dan’s last resting 
place. 

In the royal museum at Copenhagen there 
is, and has been for more than 275 years, a 
golden trumpet known throughout Denmark 
as the ‘ ‘ Danish Horn. ’ ’ This remarkable relic 
is a genuine trumpet of Zion. Its weight is one 
hundred and two ounces, and it measures two 
feet nine inches in length. The surrounding 
circumstances, its lily and pomegranate chas¬ 
ing, and the tracing of its Hebrew inscription, 
strongly sustain the position. This trumpet 
was discovered, partly concealed in the 
ground, by a farmer’s daughter in 1630, in the 
diocese of Rypeny. 

How did it find its way from Jericho to 
Jutland? 

It came with Dan across the continent. 

These wayworn pilgrims trending ever 
westward, lost and left it there—a “way- 
mark” eloquent in silence,—for taking ships 


22 


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again they were at home once more upon the 
sea, and ploughed the English channel, free 
at last to reach their “little sanctuary” and 
dwell alone in safety. But it was only a 
very small portion of Dan that took this 
weary overland journey to the land of 
Britham , which is Hebrew for “Covenant.” 
These were of a small colony that had gone 
north before the days of Solomon to hew the 
cedars of Lebanon, and the oaks of Bashan 
for Dan’s navies, and had been caught there, 
when the Assyrians came down upon the 
straying fold of Israel. The bulk of Dan’s 
tribe, was, in those days, upon the sea, and 
when the “Ten Tribed Kingdom ” fell of 
which they were a part, they escaped in their 
ships. 


DAN 

Why did Dan “remain in his ships”? 
This most adventurous tribe of Israel re¬ 
mained in ships in order that, when the day 
of trouble came, he might escape in them, 
reach his colonies abroad, and there gather 
strength for fuller conquest. 

The exodus of Dan began in Egypt and 

23 


Eze. 11 
16 


Jud.5: 

17 


Jterael, prince of (gob 


Tanis was his youthful port. All through 
the period we have sketched his enterprise 
continued, and beneath the fostering care of 
Solomon it culminated. To these same 
colonies, grown greater as the centuries rolled 
on, came also all the other tribes disguised 
and lost, not only to each other but to them¬ 
selves as well, and there, too, all renewed their 
strength. 

The ancestor of the tribe of Dan was the 
son of Rachel’s handmaid, one of Jacob’s 
concubines, and was the firstborn of Rachel’s 
Gen. household. “God hath judged me,” said 
30:6 Rachel and she called his name Dan which 
means to judge, to rule. 

Shortly after the Israelites left Egypt, the 
tribe of Dan numbered of fighting men alone 
Num. 1: “from twenty years old and upwards, all 
38,39 that were able to go forth to war, 62,700.” 
When the land was divided by lot, in the 
judgeship of Joshua, Dan received a small 
portion of the south, on the seaboard. He 
soon acquired, by conquest, territory to the 
north, near Lebanon. Here were the oaks 
of Bashan, the cedars of Lebanon, the 
commerce of Damascus, the enterprising 
Phoenicians, and close by the emporiums of 

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trade, Tyre and Sidon. An ideal country 
to develop shipbuilders and traders. 

The coast of the children of Dan went out too Jos. 
little for them: therefore the children of Dan J 9:47 
went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, 
and smote it with the edge of the sword, and 
possessed it and dwelt therein, and called Les¬ 
hem, Dan after the name of Dan, their father. 

And there went up from thence of the family Judi 8 : 
of Danites . . . six hundred men appointed with 12 
weapons . . . wherefore they called that place 
Mahaneh-Dan. . . . 

And they built a city and dwelt therein . . . Jud. 18: 
and they called the name of the city Dan, after 2 9 
the name of Dan their father. 

We shall find Dan giving his name to places 
all along his travels. Dan was the pioneer 
of Israel. Out through the gates of Hercules, 
and into the Western Sea, these early pioneers 
sought new waters of adventure. Iceland, 
Greenland, even America were not unknown 
to them. Dan lived in ships: the ocean was 
his safe retreat; adventure was the spirit of 
his life; to pioneer and plant the flag of 
Israel’s empire round the world his mission. 

This tribe planted colonies in Egypt, Greece, 

25 


Iterael, $ruue of (Sob 


Spain and Ireland. As early as the time of 
Deborah they had a colony in the North of 
Ireland, called Jeroconda, the Hebrew for 
Jerusalem. 

Argos is said by the Greeks to have been 
the birth place of Hercules. Herodotus, who 
went to some trouble to find out who Hercu¬ 
les really was, made a special voyage to Tyre 
and found an older temple to Hercules. The 
origin of the Grecian Hercules, or Heracles as 
it is in Greek, seems to have been in the 
daring adventures and exploits of the semi¬ 
traders and buccaneers of Tyre and Dan, 
out of which they formed an ideal man, 
suitable to that heroic age and in apparent 
conformity with the earliest divine command 
to “subdue” and “have dominion.” In 
Hebrew, rakal means to trade and Heraclean 
means traders. Argoz also, from ragoz t to 
move, is Hebrew for a portable chest , a name 
which might well symbolize trade or commerce. 

The original Ionian confederation, on the 
Asiatic side of the Aegean, numbered twelve 
cities, founded five centuries after the settle¬ 
ment of Israel on the shore of the Mediterra¬ 
nean. “It seems to me,” says Herodotus, 
“that the number twelve was chosen by the 
26 


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Ionians and that they were unwilling to ex¬ 
ceed this number.” The number twelve is 
distinctly Israelitish and one which Israelites 
at all times clung to as the symbol of their 
united nation. 

Cume, the most important city of the 
^Eolic confederation (also made up of twelve 
cities) was the traditional home of the Sibyl¬ 
line Oracles which many think to have been 
of Hebrew origin. Indeed the name of the 
Sibyl, in Hebrew, (Shibul “an ear of corn,” 
plural Shibboleth or Sibbuleth) points prob¬ 
ably, says an author on freemasonry, to the 
idea of Virgo presiding over the harvest; 
while Egypt was her original home, whence 
she passed through the cities of the Grecian 
Isles to the shores of Italy. 

There is much evidence of the early con¬ 
nection between Israel and the different tribes 
of Greece. From the Heraclidae, the Isreali- 
tish element can be traced through the early 
rulers of Argos to the kings of Macedonand 
Alexander the Great. And on another line 
to the governing class of Sparta, the 
Lacedaemonians. 

It is recorded in Maccabees XII and in 
Josephus, that at about 180 B.C., the king 
27 


Israel, Prince of (Sob 


I Mac. 
12:20- 
22 


of the Lacedaemonians sent the following 
letter to the Jews in Jerusalem. 

Areus king of the Lacedaemonians to Onias 
the high priest, greetings: 

It is found in writing, that the Lace¬ 
daemonians and Jews are brethren, and that 
they are of the stock of Abraham: Now, there¬ 
fore, since this is come to our knowledge, ye 
shall do well to write unto us of your prosperity. 

The Jews are stated by Josephus to have 
replied thus:— 

We joyfully received the epistle, and were 
well pleased, although we did not need such a 
demonstration, because we were satisfied about 
it from the sacred writings. 

Dan’s name is omitted in the genealogies of 
the tribes, given in I Chronicles. In the 
future sub-division of Palestine, noted in 
Ezekiel, Dan, however, heads the list of all 
the tribes. The reason for the omission in 
the genealogical records is that the greater 
portion of the tribe of Dan had left Palestine 
and were settled in their different colonies, 
the chief one being in Ireland. 

Where Dan is we must find the Canaanites. 

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We have them in the Irish—the southern or 
Roman Catholic Irish. These lived with 
Dan and Simeon in Palestine (Philistines) and 
came with Dan to Ireland. They boast of 
their Phoenician origin (Fenians), and are 
to this day “hewers of wood and drawers of 
water,” and “thorns in the side and pricks 
in the eyes” of English and Americans only. 

Truly the Canaanite is still in the land of 
Israel. 

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains Num. 
of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, Speak 33:50 
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 56 
When ye are passed over Jordan into the land 
of Canaan; then ye shall drive out all the in¬ 
habitants of the land from before you, and de¬ 
stroy all their pictures, and destroy all their 
molten images, and quite pluck down all their 
high places: and ye shall dispossess the inhabi¬ 
tants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have 
given you the land to possess it. . . . 

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants 
of the land from before you; then it shall come 
to pass, that those which ye let remain of them 
shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in 
your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein 
ye dwell. Moreover it shall come to pass, that I 
shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them. 

29 


3torael, prince of <@cb 


Therefore, where we find Lost Israel, there 
we must find the Canaanite. Also conversely, 
where we discover nations of Canaanitish 
origin, there we have made advance towards 
the discovery of the lost sections of the 
Hebrew race. 

Phoenicians was the name given to the 
Canaanites by the Greeks. The Hebrews 
and the Phoenicians, or Canaanites, were ad¬ 
joining races, speaking two distinct forms of 
the same language. Authorities are agreed 
that the Keltic race has two plainly marked 
divisions: one the Kelts proper, also called 
Gauls and Gaels; the other Kymry, or Belgae. 
The kingdom of Israel, according to the As¬ 
syrian inscriptions, was known as Beth- 
Kumri; the Belgae of Briton were known as 
Kymry, a name preserved in Wales to the 
present day. 

Dan has left his waymarks everywhere, 
and from that early age to this, upon the ever 
widening ripple of exploration the keels of 
his ships were first to find new fields for 
enterprise. 

Had we time and space we might show 
ample arguments to prove that Samson, of 
the tribe of Dan, was Hercules; that Colchis 
30 


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with its golden fleece was but a colony of 
Dan; that the Greeks, called Danai by their 
earlier historians oftener than by any other 
name, were the sons of Dan; that Mace- 
dan-ia was another colony of this same 
people; that the Lacedaemonians actually 
claimed their descent from Abraham; that 
Spain was ruled by Solomon’s prime-minis¬ 
ter, whose tomb is there today; that all the 
Black Sea region was colonized by Dan; that 
Ireland was judged by the Tuatha de 
Danaans from the Hall of Tara and that 
Simeon, his fraternal shipping tribe, was the 
father of the Welsh whose language phoneti¬ 
cally is almost Hebrew still and, called by 
their earliest name, were known in England 
as Simonii. 

It is along these highways which Dan 
pioneered into the wilderness that we may 
trace him to our midst. 

Judah at Jerusalem and the Escape of a 
Remnant 

The House or Kingdom of Judah, which in¬ 
cluded Benjamin and Levi, continued for one 
hundred and thirty-five years after the fall of 
3i 


3terael, prince of <@ob 


the kingdom of Israel and the deportation of 
the Ten Tribes, 585 b.c. 

In B.c. 627, Jeremiah received his divine 
commission as prophet. He cries: 

Jer. 2 : According to the number of thy cities are thy 

28 gods, O Judah. 

Jer. 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of 
Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in 
the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, 
if there be any that executeth judgment, that 
seeketh the tlruth. 

Political factions in Jerusalem demanded 
alliance with one or other of the great powers 
of the day; one party seeking a league with 
Egypt against Assyria; another, close rela¬ 
tions with Assyria against Egypt. Jeremiah, 
following the lead of Isaiah, urged that 
Judah ought to have no foreign relations; 
that as the people of God, it should keep it¬ 
self isolated from heathenism. Religion and 
politics were only different names for the 
same thing in the eyes of Jeremiah. To him, % 
alliance with a heathen nation was equiva¬ 
lent to adopting their idolatry. 

As the representative of Jehovah, Jeremiah 
demanded that the State should follow his 


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counsels and not that of any political party 
or even of the king. 

Conditions becoming more and more acute, 
demoralization within and menace of utter 
destruction from without, Jeremiah forsaw 
that the Chaldean power was irresistible 
and strove to bring his countrymen to a 
willing submission as the only means of 
preserving the State. Even human sa¬ 
gacity might have taught them that resist¬ 
ance would lead to deportation; but it was 
further revealed to Jeremiah that the cap¬ 
tivity to follow would terminate in seventy 
years. 

One appeal to his countrymen followed 
another: 

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Jer. 25 
Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that 3-9 
is the three and twentieth year, the word of the 
Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken 
unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have 
not hearkened. And the Lord hath sent unto 
you all His servants the prophets, rising early 
and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, 
nor inclined your ear to hear. 

They said, Turn ye again now every one from 
his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and 


33 


3ferael, $rime of (Soli 


dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto 
you and to your fathers for ever and ever: And 
go not after other gods to serve them, and to 
worship them, and provoke me not to anger 
with the works of your hands; and I will do you 
no hurt. Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, 
saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to 
anger with the works of your hands to your own 
hurt. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; 
Because ye have not heard my words, Behold, 
I will send and take all the families of the north, 
saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of 
Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against 
this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, 
and against all these nations round about, and will 
utterly destroy them, and make them an astonish¬ 
ment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolation. 

The advance of Nebuchadnezzar with an 
army of Chaldeans and Syrians spread terror 
on all sides. 

On the fall of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar, 
instead of setting up a Chaldean governor 
in Jerusalem, appointed Mattaniah, the third 
son of Josiah, changing his name to Zedekiah. 

In the ninth year of the reign of Zedekiah, 
the king of Babylon made a second expedition 
against Jerusalem and lay before it eighteen 

34 


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months. The city was taken in the eleventh 
year of the reign of Zedekiah. 

Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Jer. 
Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the 
king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. 
Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound 
him with chains, to carry him to Babylon. And 
the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the 
houses of the people, with fire, and brake down 
the walls of Jerusalem. 

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard 
carried away captive into Babylon the remnant 
of the people that remained in the city. 

Josephus says in his History of the Jews: 

Now the general of the army, Nebuzaradan, 
when he had carried the people of the Jews into 
captivity, left the poor and those that had de¬ 
serted and gone into the country from Jerusalem, 
and he made one whose name was Gedaliah, 
the son of Ahikam, a person of a noble family, 
their governor, which Gedaliah was a gentle and 
righteous disposition. 

Nebuzaradan also took Jeremiah the prophet 
out of prison (where Zedekiah had put him for 
fear of the Jews) and would have persuaded him 
to go along with him to Babylon for that he had 
been enjoined by the king Nebuchadnezzar to 

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supply him with whatsoever he wanted: and if 
he did not like to accompany him to Babylon, 
he desired him to inform him where he resolved 
to dwell, that he might signify the same to the 
king. But the prophet had no mind to follow 
him, nor to dwell anywhere else, but would 
gladly live in the ruins of his country and in the 
miserable remains of it. When the general 
understood what his purpose was, he enjoined 
Gedaliah, whom he left behind, to take all possi¬ 
ble care of him, and to supply him with whatso¬ 
ever he wanted. So, when he had given him 
rich presents, he dismissed him. Accordingly 
Jeremiah abode in a city of that country which 
was called Mizpah, and desired of Nebuzaradan 
that he would set at liberty his disciple, Baruch, 
the son of Neriah, one of a very eminent family 
and exceedingly skillful in the language of his 
country. 

In the forty-first chapter of Jeremiah, we 
read that Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, rose up 
against Gedaliah, the governor, and slew him: 

Jer. 41: Then Ishmael carried away captive all the 

10-12, residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even 
16-18 the king's daughters . . . whom Nebuzaradan 
the captain of the guard had committed to 
Gedaliah. . . . But when Johanan the son of 
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Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that 
were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael 
the son of Nethaniah had done, then they took 
all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael. 

. . . Then took Johanan ... all the rem¬ 
nant of the people whom he had recovered from 
Ishmael . . . and the women, and the children. 

. . . And they departed, and dwelt in the habi¬ 
tation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to 
go to enter into Egypt. Because Ishmael . . . 
had slain Gedaliah . . . whom the king of 
Babylon made governor in the land. 

Jeremiah again warns: 

The Lord hath said concerning you, 0 ye jer. 42 
remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know 19 
certainly that I have admonished you this day. 

But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the Jer. 43 
captains of the forces, took all the remnant of 5-7 
Judah. . . . Even men, and women, and chil¬ 
dren, and the king's daughters , and every per¬ 
son that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard 
had left with Gedaliah . . . and Jeremiah the 
prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. So they 
came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed 
not the voice of the Lord: thus came they even 
to Tahpanhes. 


The story of Jeremiah’s sojourn in Egypt 
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with the Royal Remnant is only briefly told 
in his own writings (Chapters 40-43), but its 
eventful character is filled up by data which 
have since been gleaned from collateral and 
secular history. 

By Pharaoh, their recent ally, and the im¬ 
placable enemy of Babylon, the refugees were 
heartily welcomed. They were treated with 
marked consideration, and all those who 
had erred in their hearts in coming there 
were soon initiated into all the mysterious 
idolatries of their ancient House of Bond¬ 
age. They were taught to bum incense to 
the Queen of Heaven, and fill themselves 
from Egypt’s flesh pots to satiety. 

But Jeremiah was insistent in his warnings, 
and foretold the utter destruction of the land, 
and of all who willingly had sought its shelter 
and were reconciled to being there. He 
doomed all such to die there by the pestilence 
or sword, or else to be carried in perpetual 
chains to Babylon. 

He declared moreover that Nebuchadnez¬ 
zar should certainly spread his royal pavil¬ 
ion and set up his throne over certain great 
stones which he buried in their presence in 
the brick kiln which was at the entry of the 
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Palace, and that he should “array himself Jer.43: 
with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd put- 12 
teth on his garment.” Now Pharaoh had 
directed that Jeremiah and his special party 
(who at Johanan’s instance, were perhaps 
quasi prisoners, nor for their Babylonian 
leanings wholly welcome in the land) should 
be quartered at his own palace, or in the cita¬ 
del of Tahpanhes (that is they were under 
political surveillance), and there they dwelt 
so long as they remained in Egypt, a distinct 
and separated group. 

These were Jeremiah, his daughter Hamu- 
tal, wife of King Josiah, Baruch, Ebed- 
Melech, the king's daughters and a chosen 
few whom God had reserved for work else¬ 
where and yet to come. And of this remnant 
the contrasted prophecies are equally as 
pointed as are those directed at the other 
disobedient section of the refugees. 

Meanwhile the major part of the Jewish 
colony, who were settled at Daphne near by 
the citadel, gradually fell into the worship 
of Astarte. 

At length the news of Nebuchadnezzar’s 
success at Tyre, after a siege of thirteeen 
years, brought the menace of his long de- 

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Jer. i: 
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layed invasion of Egypt. In the confusion the 
Book of Jeremiah ends and the prophet himself 
and his chosen favored remnant disappear! 

What became of “the small number that 
escaped”? 

Only the half of Jeremiah’s life mission had 
thus far been accomplished. He was com¬ 
missioned as a prophet: 

See, I have this day set thee over the nations 
and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull 
down, and to destroy, and to throw down: 
To Build and To Plant. 

In the prosecution of the first part of this 
task, Jeremiah had lived to see the four suc¬ 
cessors of Josiah come to nought. Johoahaz 
was “rooted out,” by Pharaoh Necho, Jehoi- 
akim was “pulled down” by Nebuchadnez¬ 
zar, who also “destroyed” Jehoiakin and 
“threw down” Zedekiah. Truly he had 
prophesied in evil days, and lived to see their 
evil outcome! 

But was his life-work therefore ended? If 
so, it terminated at the moment of fruition. 

There is the most positive Scriptural 
foundation for the building and planting of 
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David’s rescued Sceptre beyond the reach of 
Gentile interference. Of all who might have 
been entrusted with its accomplishment, 
Jeremiah was best fitted for the task. An un¬ 
swerving minister of God; a statesman of 
wide international experience; a cabinet of¬ 
ficer whose acquaintance with affairs spanned 
the reigns of five successive rulers in his na¬ 
tive land; a Prophet fully imbued with the 
spirit of his mission, and consistently edu¬ 
cated for it from his birth; with a compact 
and faithful body of interested adherents; 
with a wealth of treasure prepared so as to be 
ready for his instant use; we believe that 
Jeremiah took advantage of the fall of Egypt 
to escape therefrom exactly as “Israel” had 
already done in Media, when the Assyrian 
empire fell. 

Constrained to go down into Egypt against 
his will, and having openly denounced those 
who had fallen away from Jehovah to Astarte, 
the prophet and his few adherents were ostra¬ 
cised by the majority of the Jews who dwelt 
in Egypt. Egypt herself was in the throes of 
an internecine rebellion whose outcome Jere¬ 
miah had himself predicted. It is incom¬ 
patible with human reason that the prophet 
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should not have laid his own plans in view of 
the incidents he was so plainly commissioned 
to predict, and in which as a necessity of its 
fulfilment his own safety was particularly 
guaranteed. 

In Baruch’s day a barque, quietly laden 
at Tanais, close at hand, and loosed from her 
moorings with so small a band of refugees, 
would have been lost, save to its own crew, 
so soon as it had cleared the harbor’s mouth. 
In later days but long antedating Christian¬ 
ity in their origines, indeed synchronizing 
therein with the very generation of Jere¬ 
miah’s disappearance from Tahpanhes, a 
group of Western Chronicles and Legends 
constantly point to Spain as a temporary 
resting place, and to Ireland as the re¬ 
fuge of just such a Remnant of Hebrew 
Notables. 

Charged with the safety of the seed of 
David, and positively commanded to “build 
and to plant,” Jeremiah is traced to Egypt 
with the “king’s daughters” and then disap¬ 
pears to Biblical Chronologists. At this 
point Irish Chronicles supply the missing 
data. 


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BENJAMIN 


The Two Tribed Kingdom of “Judah ” still 
ruled over by one of the descendents of David, 
continued for one hundred years after the Ten 
Tribed Israel became “lost.” To this king¬ 
dom the priestly tribe of Levi cleaved, and 
unto them, “for David’s sake,” the Lord lent 
temporarily the tribe of Benjamin. The lat¬ 
ter tribe has, since then, disappeared, and 
joined the Ten Tribed Kingdom in disguise, 
but the two tribes, Judah and Levi, familiarly 
known as the “Jews” are still with us, with 
no possibility of ever losing their identity. 

They are a marked, identified and special 
people. 

The prophecy that Judah should never be 
lost is as explicitly set forth in Holy Writ, as 
the one that Israel should be. But there was 
a still more pointed promise to this section of 
Jacob’s children, to wit: that the sceptre 
should not depart from Judah, nor a law¬ 
giver from beneath his feet, until the 
Millennium. In support of this rendering, or 
paraphase of Jacob’s blessing, we refer to 
Lange and other leading commentators. The 
concensus of the most learned students of 


Jer.6 

Luke 

21:20- 

24 


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prophecy is, that Jacob will not, and may not 
“come home to his rest” (or Shiloh) until 
that time arrives which we modems have 
denominated the Millennium. 

It is generally agreed that our translation 
(King James version) is at fault in making 
Shiloh a proper name in this connection, so 
that even if Messiah's time is signified by the 
word, it is the time yet future of his second 
coming rather than the first, which left a 
sword and not a sceptre. 

Several times during the five hundred years 
of recognized succession from David to Zede- 
kiah, his seed was threatened with extinction 
and the sceptre seemed about to depart but 
God always provided a man to sit upon the 
throne. Shall we believe then that in Zede- 
kiah’s day the sceptre was actually suffered 
to “depart”? Nevertheless, nothing is so 
certain as that the sceptre disappeared at this 
particular time! Josephus, relating the for¬ 
tunes of Zedekiah, whom he regarded as the 
last king of Judah says: “And after this 
manner have the kings of David’s race 
ended their lives, being in number twenty- 
one until the last king ( i.e ., Zedekiah).” 

The promise demands the perpetual exist- 

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ence of a child of David’s line in true heraldic 
succession, and actually holding the sceptre 
of acknowledged regality over either a sepa¬ 
rated part or over all of Judah’s tribe. It 
demands a Ruler as such , a crown, a sceptre, 
and a people. There was a Royal Remnant 
that went out of Jerusalem. It was Davidic, 
Judaic, and Levitical and with it went the 
whole regalia of the realm, and a child of 
Zedekiah so gentle as to be called the Tender 
Twig, and for her guardian Jeremiah who 
chiefest among all of Jehovah’s prophets and 
of Judah’s prime ministers was directly com¬ 
missioned “to plant” the twig, and “build” 
the monarchy anew. 

When the disciples asked the Savior after 
his resurrection, whether he would at that 
time “restore again the kingdom to Israel,” he 
rebuked them, saying: “It is not for you to Actsi 
know the times or the seasons, which the 6 » 7 
Father has put in his own power.” 

Their question has a double significance. 

It, as well as the Savior’s reply, recognizes 
the apparent lapse in the supremacy of Judah, 
and both question and answer imply the ex¬ 
pected transfer of the sceptre to the Ten 
Tribed Kingdom. The Savior avoided shed- 

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ding any light upon the fate, fortunes or 
whereabouts of the sceptre or the throne 
seat; nor did he come to occupy them then, 
for immediately thereafter “he was caught 
up into heaven.” 

At the time of the Disciples* conversa¬ 
tion with the ascending Savior the sceptre 
had been swaying over Israel for full five 
hundred and ninety-five years. But the 
time for its manifestation had not then ar¬ 
rived, and the disciples, and all the tribe of 
Benjamin, from which they had been drawn, 
had other work before them. They were to 
bear the light of the new covenant to these 
lost sheep of the House of Israel, to which 
kingdom they actually belonged. They were 
simply “lent” to Judah and “for David’s 
sake.” The lease had now run out, and they 
were sent unto their brethren. They had an 
unerring guide, the Holy Spirit, and a search¬ 
ing light, the Gospel. So absorbed in its 
mission was this Christian section of the 
tribe that it soon lost the merely material 
purport of its origin. The other section of 
Benjamin, which later was Christianized in 
Judah, escaped from Jerusalem, during the 
Roman siege, about 70 a.d. As we shall see, 
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they were the last of the Ten Tribes to reach 
the British Isles. 

Mr. Totten quotes Mr. Edward Hine of 
England, as saying of Benjamin: 

Benjamin is a tribe of Israel, one of the ten, 
and not a tribe of Judah, one of the two. The 
disciples of Christ were from Benjamin, there¬ 
fore Israelites and not Jews. Paul was an 
Israelite, and not a Jew. The conversions at 
Pentecost included Israelites from Benjamin 
and not Jews from Judah. 

The Theocracy of Israel consisted of twelve 
tribes, and when Israel first became a kingdom 
it still contained twelve tribes. Prior to the 
Second Coming of Christ, the Nation of Israel 
will again comprise twelve tribes; but now the 
House of Israel only includes ten tribes. Saul, 

David, and Solomon were kings over the whole 
twelve. It was because “Solomon did evil in the I Kings 
sight of the Lord” that the Lord said, “I will h:6,ii, 
surely REND the kingdom from thee, notwith- 12 
standing in thy days I will not do it, for David 
thy father’s sake; but I will rend it out of the 
hand of thy son. Howbeit I will not REND 
AWAY ALL the kingdom, but will give ONE 
TRIBE to thy son, for David, my servant’s 
sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, which I have 
chosen.” 


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The kingdom of Israel was to be rent away 
from Solomon’s son, not the house of Judah; 
yet, ONE TRIBE, even belonging to Israel, was 
to remain with Judah. Jeroboam, who was not 
Solomon’s son, met Ahijah the prophet; Jero¬ 
boam being dressed in a new garment, Ahijah 
caught hold of it, and tore it into twelve pieces, 
i Kings saying to Jeroboam, “take these TEN PIECES, 
02 * 31 * for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, be¬ 
hold I will REND the kingdom out of the hand 
of Solomon and will give TEN TRIBES to thee, 
but he shall have ONE TRIBE, for my servant 
David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city 
which I have chosen, OUT OF ALL THE 
TRIBES OF ISRAEL.” 

The ONE TRIBE was to be taken out of the 
TEN, therefore, Israel would be left for a time 
with only NINE; and for a time Judah would 
possess THREE TRIBES, I say only for a time: 
because this one tribe was not a positive gift, 
I Kings but only a loan, to serve a special service: “I will 
ii J 35>36 take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and give 
it unto thee, even TEN TRIBES and unto his 
son will I give ONE TRIBE that David my 
servant may have A LIGHT ALWAY before me 
in Jerusalem the city which I have chosen me to 
put my name there. ” Therefore the mission of 
the one Tribe was to be “a light”—it was to be 
separated from Israel and to serve this purpose 
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under Judah; nevertheless, though with Judah it 
belonged to Israel. This tribe was Benjamin’s, 11 Chr - 
and was with Judah after the revolt. After 25:5 
Hoshea’s captivity, Judah, Levi and Benjamin 
were left in the land and one hundred and 
twenty-two years later (590 b.c.) these three 
tribes went into Babylonish captivity for seventy 
years. These three tribes returned also from 
Babylon. 

Ezra even goes so far as to record the ances- Ezra 
try of the chief men who returned and men- l: 5 
tions only those of Judah, Levi, and Benjamin. 

It must be remembered that the original inheri¬ 
tance of Benjamin in the land, was a slip north 
of Jerusalem, including Bethel and Jericho, but 
after they returned from Babylon, Obadiah Ob. 
distinctly refers to Benjamin as possessing I:I 9 
Gilead, a country extending very considerably 
northwards and near to the Sea of Galilee. It 
would be in these parts that this, the only tribe 
of Israel, would be found in the time of Christ. 

The Jews, or Judah, were then still inheriting 
Judea, southwards; and it is important to note 
that when Christ came, he did not go in quest 
of his disciples in Judea, although he did select 
Jerusalem as the city to place his name there. 

But why should he not have selected his disciples 
from the Jews of Judea? This could not be; 
because, having selected the city, he wanted a 

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John light. He could not possibly get this from the 

mi Jews, because Christ—himself from Judah— 

came to his own, but his own (tribe) received 
him not—utterly rejected him. How, then, 
could Judah supply the wanted “light," when 
they had no light ? ‘ ‘ Therefore, ’ ’ said Jesus, ‘ ‘ say I 
unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken 
Matt. f rom y 0U (Judah), and given to a NATION 
11:43 bringing forth the fruits thereof" (Israel). 
Hence, Christ goes northward to the “country of 
Benjamin," after the ONE TRIBE OF ISRAEL 
whose especial mission it was to be “A LIGHT" 
Matt. before him: and “by the Sea of Galilee," finds 
4 :l8 Peter and Andrew. 

In this region were the twelve selected, all of 
Benjamin, not of Judah—unless, may be, Judas 
represented Judah, and Barnabas, Levi. He said 
John of Nathaniel: “Behold, an Israelite, indeed," 
1:47 meaning that he was not a Jew; and Peter, when 
in the hall of the High Priest, surrounded by 
Jews, was known not to be a Jew by his speech. 
Hence I maintain it to be a very grave mistake 
to speak of these disciples as Jews, or to hold 
them up as examples of Jewish conversions. 
This point is further substantiated by the fact, 
that, after the ascension, the great Apostle, the 
great Light, the mighty Paul, comes forth and 
Rom. avows himself, “an Israelite of the seed of 
11 :i Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin," the ONE 

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SPECIAL TRIBE purposely left with Judah, 
until the days came when they could hold forth 
the glorious light of the everlasting Gospel. 

This One Tribe was the remnant of Israel left 
in the land, to which Joel referred, saying: “In Joel 
Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath 2:32 
said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall 
call”; bringing us to the day of Pentecost, when 
three thousand were converted, and numbers 
were added to the Church daily. Peter speaking 
of Pentecost, says, “This is THAT which was Acts 
spoken by the prophet Joel”: meaning, that 2:i ^ 
Pentecost was but the fulfilment of Joel’s 
prophecy: that Joel had foretold of this out¬ 
pouring of God’s Spirit, and which was but the 
foreshadowing of a still more glorious outpouring 
yet in reserve for us. 

It is most evident that Joel does not prophesy 
of the Jews at all, in relation to this great event. 

His prophecy of Pentecost is directed entirely 
to ISRAEL. He has nothing to do with Judah, 
excepting in his last chapter and then, is chiefly 
referring to events yet to take place. His first 
and second chapters include Israel only, and as 
showing their political relationship with certain 
Gentiles. 

Properly understood, they are in reality most 
important chapters of pure English History: 
therefore I maintain the conversions at Pentecost 


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were not Jewish, but embraced only Israel and 
that, as Benjamin only was in the land at this 
time, belonging to Israel, so Pentecost included 
only this “One Tribe.” This “One Tribe” was 
Rom. “a remnant according to the election of grace,” 
n: 4>5 and were, as Paul said, Israelites to whom per¬ 
tained the adoption and the glory and the cove- 
Acts nants; in whose “seed shall all the kindreds of 
3 =25 the nations be blessed. ’’ And as the promises can 

only be realized in Christ, and, as the Jews have 
not been, and are not yet, in Christ, therefore, 
they are not in “adoption”; neither have the 
kindreds of the earth been blessed through them. 
Hence, it is evident that the Jews, as a people, 
had no part in the conversion of Pentecost. 

Lastly we come to the fact recorded by 
Josephus, that all the Christians of these times 
escaped from Jerusalem unhurt, immediately 
prior to the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans. 
These Christians were Israelites, of the tribe 
of Benjamin; no harm was done to them; they 
escaped, leaving their brethren of Judah behind 
to suffer the punishment of their sins in rejecting 
their Saviour. Christ made overtures to them, 
but they resolutely denied him. Paul preached 
to them—called himself a Jew, simply in order 
to be in communion with them—but they would 
not hear him. Some of them for a time received 
his good tidings; but afterwards they forsook 
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him and fell back to Judaism. Hence it was 
that Paul turned his attention to the Gentiles in¬ 
stead. Therefore, the Jews were left behind for 
punishment, to suffer all the horrors of the 
Roman siege. 

But not so with Benjamin; they had now 
fulfilled their mission; they had been “a light 
alway” before Christ; they preached the great 
Light of the Gospel; they alone were used by 
God to proclaim the good Tidings to their 
brethren, the “lost sheep,” the nine tribes who 
were then “scattered sheep” in the Northwest 
region; and now, having accomplished the work 
they were given to do, the time arrived for them 
to depart. So, just as Pentecost was fulfilling 
prophecy given to Israel by Joel, so was their 
deliverance from Jerusalem the fulfilment of 
prophecy given to Israel by Jeremiah. 

This great prophet comes forth plainly to their 
rescue, and says to this “one tribe,” “O ye chil¬ 
dren of Benjamin, gather yourselves to FLEE 
OUT of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the 
trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign in Beth- 
haccerem, for evil appeareth out of the north” 
[the Roman siege] “and great destruction.” 
By the will of God, they, the “one tribe” 
were to escape. Hence, these were not Christian 
Jews , as Josephus tells us they were, but Chris¬ 
tian Israelites , composing the one tribe of Ben- 

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Gen. 

49:27 


jamin, and whose descendants are now numbered 
with us in Britain, and to whom we are indebted 
for the tidings of the Gospel. 

This tribe did not (wholly) escape by the 
Northwest, but (its light-bearers) took shipping 
by the Great Sea, hence would come through 
Italy, by way of Rome; that though possibly we 
might receive the glad tidings through the 
medium of Rome, yet never through the false 
Church of Rome, but through our kindred of 
Benjamin. They would then make their way 
through France, through Gaul and Normandy, 
simply directed by the finger of God to the one 
point of concentration, where crossing the English 
Channel, they would meet in England the other 
nine tribes of Israel. These tribes had made their 
way to England from the Northwest points, where 
their fathers having previously had the Gospel 
proclaimed to them, were the more ready to re¬ 
ceive it, via Benjamin, by way of Rome. 

These invading Normans were really our own 
kindred Benjamin, adopting this means by direc¬ 
tion of God, to reunite themselves with the main 
body. 

In the Normans, who, with wolves upon 
the prows of their ships, came into Israel’s 
resting place and “ravined” “in the morn¬ 
ing” of their conquest, over the spoil, and 

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“divided” it, in the Doomsday Book, in the 
evening of their victory, we have the incom¬ 
ing of that tribe which is to “dwell safely” by 
the Lord’s anointed. 

Let us return and follow the fortunes of 
Judah, with whom Benjamin still dwelt. 

THE SCARLET THREAD 

When Jacob and his sons left Palestine, at 
the time of the famine to settle in Egypt 
under the protection of Joseph, Judah with 
his two sons, Pharez and Zarah, accom¬ 
panied his father. The account of the birth of 
these twins is given as follows: 

And it came to pass, in the time of her Gen. 38 
travail, that the one put out his hand: and the 27-30 
midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet 
thread, saying, This came out first. And it came 
to pass, as he drew back his hand, that behold his 
brother came out: and she said, How hast thou 
broken forth ? this breach be upon thee: therefore 
his name was called Pharez. And afterward came 
out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon 
his hand: and his name was called Zarah. 

Zarah always claimed to be the first born, 
because he bore the scarlet thread, but 

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Pharez was looked up to as the head of the 
tribe of Judah. 

The famine which drove Jacob and his 
sons into Egypt also induced Esau and his 
family likewise, to immigrate. During the 
course of six generations, Esau’s descendants 
became so powerful that they headed a fac¬ 
tion, which was the means of driving the 
Pharaohs who knew Joseph, from the throne 
of Egypt and Rameses III, the Pharaoh who 
ordered the midwives to destroy the Hebrew 
male children, was a direct descendant of 
Esau’s. 

As long as Joseph lived, the rivalry be¬ 
tween Pharez and Zarah was kept in check, 
but after his passing it broke out and the 
children of Zarah seceded from Israel, left 
the land of Goshen and joined themselves to 
the faction headed by Esau’s descendants. 

When Seti I, father of Rameses III, came to 
the throne, the family of Zarah became very 
powerful, Pharaoh establishing them as 
princes of the province of Getulia, and when 
Moses was adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, 
Heman, Chalcol and Darda, great-grandsons 
of Zarah, were educated with him at the 
school of the court and received the best edu- 
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cation that Egypt could afford. Solomon’s 
wisdom is alluded to in I Kings: 

And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of I Kings 
all the children of the east country, and all the 4 : 30, 
wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all 31 
men; than Ethan and Ezrahite, and Heman, and 
Chalcol, and Darda. 

The first eighteen descendants of Zarah 
ruled in African Getulia. Deag-fatha, the 
nineteenth descendant, founded a colony in 
Spain, and in his son Bratha’s reign the de¬ 
scendants of Zarah left Africa, established 
themselves in Spain and built the city of 
Brigantia. During the reign of Bille, Bratha’s 
son, Western commerce reached its height. 

Bille’s son Milesius succeeded him. He was 
a great traveller and so distinguished a prince 
that the Pharaoh of that period gave him his 
daughter Scota to wife. Later he visited one 
of the colonies of Dan in Ireland and while at 
the court of Fiacha, the ruling monarch of 
Ireland, Milesius met Miuriam, the grand¬ 
daughter of the king and married her in the 
year 3396 a.m. or 604 B.c. By her he had a 
son who is known in history as Eochaid the 
Heremon. About 590 b.c. Milesius took 

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advantage of internal dissensions and his son 
Eochaid was crowned King of Ireland. This 
Eochaid, as we have seen was a direct de¬ 
scendant of Zarah son of Judah; also the king¬ 
dom of Ireland, which had been ruled for 
years by his mother’s family, had been es¬ 
tablished in Ireland since the time of Deborah, 
by the tribe of Dan. 

Irish tradition tells us that at the time 
Nebuchadnezzar was conquering Egypt, a 
ship stranded on the shores of Ireland, and 
some venerable men, Ollams as they were 
called, accompanied by a young girl and 
many religious relics, landed, and shortly 
after, this young girl married the King of 
Ireland. 

These traditions also relate that from that 
time the worship of Baal ceased in Ireland, 
and was replaced by the worship of the true 
God. By this marriage of Jeremiah’s ward, 
Tea Tephi, the daughter of Zedekiah who 
was of the line of Pharez, Judah’s son, to 
Eochaid the Heremon, the direct descendant 
of Zarah, Judah’s son, all rival claims to the 
throne of Judah were merged into one line. 

Webster gives this derivation of the word 
Saxon: from Seax a short sword or knife, akin 
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Jfrom $alesrtme to tfje Me# afar <©ff 


to Latin Saxum, rock, stone: knives being 
originally made from stones. 

In his allusions to the raising of sons to Matt. 
Abraham, and to the crying aloud of the 3:9 
very “stones,” had his disciples held their 3 . 8 
peace, the Saviour may perhaps have made a 19:40 
play on words far deeper than the one he made 
upon the name of Peter. For, in the day he 
uttered it, our Anglo-Saxon ancestors dwelt 
all through Asia Minor and in the northern 
Black Sea region, and many devout men from 
among them had come up to celebrate that 
passover. Now it was to these “Lost Sheep 
of the House of Israel” that the Apostles were 
particularly sent. They, all of them, save 
Judas only, were of the tribe of Benjamin, 
which tribe (of Israel’s sons) must have 
formed the bulk of the mixed multitude that 
so disturbed Jerusalem with its Hosannas! 
Benjamin, it will be remembered, had been 
“lent,” only, to Judah, “for David’s sake”; 
and, if we read between the lines of prophecy 
—in the after light of history —had been left 
there for the express purpose of ultimately 
acting as a “light-bearer” unto his fellow 
tribes when true “Light” should arrive. In¬ 
deed, the play on Peter’s name acquires a new 

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I Peter 
2: 4-8 
Eph. 2 : 
19-22 


Judges 

18 

I Chron. 
4:42 


significance when we remember that he too, 
was a “Saxon,” a stone, and that on and 
out of Saxons, stones, hath Christ built his 
Church, nor have the gates of Rome prevailed 
against it, as the Reformation testifieth. 

The “Seven Churches of Asia Minor” were 
the bulk of seven of these Anglo-Israelitish 
Tribes, which spread out through Macedonia 
and Greece, and now have disappeared from 
there; Benjamin, the Light-bearer, was an 
eighth. The other two, Dan and Simeon, the 
ninth and tenth, had long before escaped 
unto the Isles, for both of them remained in 
ships and were pioneers of Israel. 

When Shalmaneser descended upon Israel 
he did not disturb the southwest coast tribes ; 
Dan and Simeon, for the kingdom of Judah, 
which was at peace with Assyria, lay be¬ 
tween them and Samaria. They each had 
colonies, however, Dan in the north at Laish 
or Dan and Simeon in the east, at Mount Seir 
which did share in the captivity, and thus by 
representation, at least, all of the ten went 
to Assyria. 

Their kingdom having thus been de¬ 
stroyed, and their king and brethren de¬ 
ported, Dan and Simeon now embarked in 
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their ships, and fled away to the islands in the 
north and west of Europe. 

Here they appear as the Simonii or an¬ 
cient Welsh, and the Tuatha de Danaans of 
ancient Ireland. The appearance of Dan in 
Ireland, about 1000-721 and 580 B.c., is un¬ 
mistakably written on the pages of British his¬ 
tory. (See Keating, Cox, The Four Masters.) 

It was with Dan in Ireland, known there 
from the earliest times as the Tuatha de 
Danaans, that Zedekiah’s daughter, Tea 
Tephi, the sole surviving lineal descendant 
of David, and the preserver of his line and 
sceptre, took refuge at the time of the Baby¬ 
lonish captivity. And it was with her that 
the “Stone Wonderful” of Ireland came to 
rest beneath the throne seat of the British 
monarchy. From that day down to this, 
from Tara (Eochaid and Tephi) to Dunstaff- 
nage (Fergus I), from Dunstaffnage to Scone 
(Kenneth), from Scone to London and West¬ 
minster Abbey (Edward), “Jacob’s Stone” 
has borne true testimony to a Davidic line of 
sovereigns. 

The Eight Tribes (with small portions of 
the other two) had a long and weary over- 
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Isa. 

4i:i 


land journey ere they too were gathered in 
the “Blessed Isles.” They lost their very 
language as they went, and stammered at un- 
qouth vocabularies. But this was all as 
prophesied. Traditions faded out and gene¬ 
alogies were lost. Called by another name, 
gathering under a new and better covenant, 
as it was also promised, they trended slowly 
westward with the course of empire, towards 
that “north country”—“the isles afar off”— 
wherein alone they might recover strength. 
They were sifted as in a sieve, and yet no 
kernel fell upon the earth. 

In this great emigration they strewed their 
course with the signs of their pilgrimage, set¬ 
ting up waymarks here and there in the tradi¬ 
tions which they dropped. They even left 
their customs impressed upon the peoples 
through whom they passed, or whom, ac¬ 
companying them like the stragglers and 
camp followers of a vast invasion, they left 
behind at length, settled along their pathway, 
while they,—the dominant people, the lead¬ 
ers of the movement—impelled by greater 
destiny, moved on beyond in spite of failing 
strength and reached at last their “little 
sanctuary.” 


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Jfrom ^Palestine to tfje Mlz& Star ©ft 


This journey through the northern wilds of 
Europe was full forty times as long, from its 
inception to its close, as that which they had 
murmured at on leaving Egypt. 

The very streams of Europe mark their 
resting places, and in the root of nearly all 
their ancient names (Dan or Don) we can 
trace the trail of these wanderers. Hence, 
the Dan- ube, the Dan- ieper, the Dan- iester. 
the Dan- an, the Dan- inn, the Dan- aster, the 
Dan- dari, the Dan-ez, the Dan , the Don, the 
U -don, the Eri -don, and the thousand other 
dans and dons and dins of ancient geography 
down to the Danes in Dam merke, or “Dan’s 
last resting place.” 

Thence taking ships again, as though re¬ 
covering from a dream of ages, Dan crossed 
the English Channel. Since then he has 
“ remained in ships! ” 


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PART II 

Manasseh—America 

I believe strictly in the Monroe Doctrine, 
in oiir Constitution, and in the laws of God. 

Mary Baker Eddy. 


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And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son 
Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strength¬ 
ened himself, and sat upon the bed. And Jacob 
said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto 
me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed 
me, and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee 
fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of 
thee a multitude of people; and will give this 
land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting 
possession. And now thy two sons, Ephraim 
and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in 
the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into 
Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they 
shall be mine. And thy issue, which thou be- 
gettest after them, shall be thine, and shall 
be called after the name of their brethren in 
their inheritance. 

And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, 
Who are these ? And Joseph said unto his father, 
They are my sons, whom God hath given me 
in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray 
thee, unto me, and I will bless them. Now the 
6 7 


3teael, prince of <@ob 


eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could 
not see. And he brought them near unto him; 
and he kissed them, and embraced them. And 
Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see 
thy face: and, lo, God hath showed me also thy 
seed. And Joseph brought them out from be¬ 
tween his knees, and he bowed himself with 
his face to the earth. 

And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his 
right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manas- 
seh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, 
and brought them near unto him. And Israel 
stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon 
Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his 
left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his 
hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. 
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before 
whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, 
the God which fed me all my life long unto this 
day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, 
bless the lads; and let my name be named on 
them, and the name of my fathers Abraham 
and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude 
in the midst of the earth. 

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his 
right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it dis¬ 
pleased him: and he held up his father’s hand, 
to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manas¬ 
seh’s head. And Joseph said unto his father, 
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Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; 
put thy right hand upon his head. And his 
father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I 
know it: he also shall become a people, and he 
also shall be great: but truly his younger brother 
shall be greater than he, and his seed shall be¬ 
come a multitude of nations. And he blessed 
them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, 
saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as 
Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 

Genesis 48: 2-20 


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Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall 
again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art 
thou the King of the Jews? Jesus answered him, 
Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others 
tell it thee of me? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? 
Thine own nation and the chief priests have 
delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done ? 

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this 
world: if my kingdom were of this world, then 
would my servants fight, that I should not be 
delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom 
not from thence. John 18:33-36. 

CTANDING in Jerusalem, the very centre of 
^ the “old world,” arraigned before that 
world’s supreme power and in the accusing 
presence of that world’s priesthood, Jesus 
answered Pilate’s question, “Art thou the 
King of the Jews?” with these remarkable 
words, “My kingdom is not of this world.” 
No! Not of that old world which had killed 


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the prophets, had rejected him, and was about 
to crucify him! 

The throne of that world was, and is still, 
occupied by its own representative of whom 
we read in Science and Health with Key to the 
Scriptures , by Mary Baker Eddy, page 252: 

Material sense lifts its voice with the arro¬ 
gance of reality and says: 

I am wholly dishonest, and no man knoweth it. 
I can cheat, lie, commit adultery, rob, murder, 
and I elude detection by smooth-tongued vil¬ 
lainy. Animal in propensity, deceitful in senti¬ 
ment, fraudulent in purpose, I mean to make 
my short span of life one gala day. What a nice 
thing is sin! How sin succeeds, where the good 
purpose waits! The world is my kingdom. I 
am enthroned in the gorgeousness of matter. 
But a touch, an accident, the law of God, may 
at any moment annihilate my peace, for all my 
fancied joys are fatal. Like bursting lava, I 
expand but to my own despair, and shine with 
the resplendency of consuming fire. 

Jesus, “the best man that ever trod the 
globe,” did not reign but was crucified in 
that world which is defined in Science and 
Health: 


S.&H. 

52 


71 


Jterael, Prince of <@ob 


S.&H. 

589 


S.&H. 

590 


Eze. 

21:27 


Isa. 

9:6,7 


Jerusalem. Mortal belief and knowledge 
obtained from the five corporeal senses; the pride 
of power and the power of pride; sensuality; 
envy; oppression; tyranny. 

In that world Levi was and still is priest. 

Levi. (Jacob’s son.) A corporeal and sensual 
belief; mortal man; denial of the fulness of God’s 
creation; ecclesiastical despotism. 

Of that world’s throne, “I will overturn, 
overturn, overturn it,” said the Lord, in 
Zedekiah’s day. And so he hath: 

From Palestine to Tara, through Tea 
Tephi, it was overturned; from Tara to 
Scotland, through Fergus, it was overturned; 
from Scotland to Westminster, through 
James the First, it was overturned- 

AND! ! IT shall be no more. 

UNTIL HE COME WHOSE RIGHT IT 
IS. AND I WILL GIVE IT UNTO HIM! 

And the government shall be upon his shoul¬ 
der: and his name shall be called Wonderful, 
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting 
Father, The Prince of Peace. 

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Of the increase of his government and peace 
there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, 
and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to estab¬ 
lish it with judgment and with justice from 
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord 
of hosts will perform this. 

The seat of this government is in the New 
World, in America, the consciousness de¬ 
scribed on page 592 in Science and Health: 

New Jerusalem. Divine Science; the spirit¬ 
ual facts and harmony of the universe; the king¬ 
dom of heaven, or reign of harmony. 

Its only crowned head is immortal sovereignty. 
Its only priest is the spiritualized man. 

In this consciousness Spirit testifies: 

I am Spirit. Man, whose senses are spiritual, 
is my likeness. He reflects the infinite under¬ 
standing, for I am Infinity. The beauty of 
holiness, the perfection of being, imperishable 
glory,—all are Mine, for I am God. I give im¬ 
mortality to man, for I am Truth. I include 
and impart all bliss, for I am Love. I give life, 
without beginning and without end, for I am 
Life. I am supreme and give all, for I am Mind. 
I am the substance of all, because I AM THAT 
I AM. 


S.&H. 

141 


S.&H. 

252 


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3terael, Prince of <@ob 


John 

14:2,3 


Christ said, at his first coming, “ I go to pre¬ 
pare a place for you. ... I will come again, 
and receive you unto myself; that where I 
am, there ye may be also.” 

On their departure from Leyden for the 
New World, Pastor Robinson solemnly 
charged the Puritans: 

I charge you, before God and his blessed 
angels, that you follow me no farther than you 
have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. 
The Lord has more truth yet to break forth out 
of his holy word. I cannot sufficiently bewail 
the condition of the reformed churches, who 
are come to a period in religion, and will go at 
present no farther than the instruments of their 
reformation. Luther and Calvin were great and 
shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated 
not into the whole counsel of God. I beseech 
you, remember it—’tis an article of your church 
covenant—that you be ready to receive what¬ 
ever truth shall be made known to you from the 
written word of God. (Vol. I, p. 205.) 

History of the United States of America. 

George Bancroft. 


Remarkable words these for the Puritan 
Pilgrims to bring in their hearts to the New 

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World, the “place prepared” “from the 
foundation of the world” for the establish¬ 
ment of Christ’s kingdom. 

Here, in America, Joseph is storing the 
substance grain of truth. Here must the 
brethren come. From here shall Christ drive 
out “whatsoever worketh abomination, or Rev. 
maketh a lie.” In America shall the com- 21:2>i 
mand of God be at last obeyed. 

There is no place in America for the alien 
Romanist, for the oriental heathen, for the 
Christ crucifying Jew. They must every one 
go to his place. That place is not America! 

The following, written after seeing the Pa¬ 
geant at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in com¬ 
memoration of the Landing of the Pilgrims, 
records facts which verify the prophecy of 
the faithful and revered Pastor Robinson. 


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THE PILGRIM 


Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, 
the evidence of things not seen. For by it the 
elders obtained a good report. These all died 
in faith, not having received the promises, but 
having seen them afar off, and were persuaded 
of them, and embraced them, and confessed that 
they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth 
for they that say such things declare plainly that 
they seek a country. And truly, if they had been 
mindful of that country from whence they came 
out, they might have had opportunity to have 
returned. But now they desire a better country, 
that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not 
ashamed to be called their God: for he hath pre¬ 
pared for them a city. 

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, 
were tempted, were slain with the sword: they 
wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; 
being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom 
the world was not worthy:) they wandered in 
deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves 
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of the earth. And these all, having obtained 
a good report through faith, received not the 
promise: God having provided some better 
thing for us, that they without us should not be 
made perfect. Hebrews 11. 

In tender mercy, Spirit sped 
A loyal ray 

To rouse the living, wake the dead, 

And point the Way— 

The Christ-idea, God anoints— 

Of Truth and Life; 

The Way in Science He appoints, 

That stills all strife. 

Christ and Christmas. 

Mary Baker Eddy. 

This “loyal ray ” of spiritual identity pene¬ 
trated corporeal sense, and Abraham beheld 
Christ, the King of Salem, Priest of the Most 
High God. 

Throughout the Adamic dream the “loyal 
ray” has continued to disturb the shadow 
illusions. Under its quickening influence, 
Moses declared the serpent Adam-Eve to be 
dust, and that it was cast out of the garden, 
out of consciousness. 


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3ferael, firinte of <©ob 


S.&H. 

200 


John 

4:29 


Mark 

8:29 

John 

20:16 


S.&H. 

249 


Moses advanced a nation to the worship of 
God in Spirit instead of matter, and illustrated 
the grand human capacities of being bestowed 
by immortal Mind. 

The ‘‘loyal ray” sped on, touching here 
one, and there another to prophetic rapture, 
until it penetrated the gross darkness that 
was upon the people. ‘‘Is not this the 
Christ?” asked the Samaritan woman, and 
left her waterpot unfilled at Jacob’s well of 
material conceptions. “Thou art the 
Christ!” declared Peter, stepping within the 
radiance of its shining. “Rabboni, Mas¬ 
ter!” cried Mary, standing with her back to 
the empty tomb where she had laid her fond¬ 
est hope, and facing the glorious light of her 
risen Lord. 

The “loyal ray,” having revealed itself as 
the ideal man of God’s creating, now gathered 
new strength from its source, the Sun of 
Righteousness, Soul, Mind, Spirit, and sped 
on to the accomplishment of its fuller mis¬ 
sion, even the revealing of itself as also the 
ideal woman of God’s creating, thus reiterat¬ 
ing the divine fiat, “Let the ‘male and fe¬ 
male’ of God’s creating appear.” 

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As in the overcoming of the male decep¬ 
tion, it required the fitting of a place and 
forming of a nation for the reception of the 
“Christ idea,” so in the overcoming of the 
female deception, it required the fitting of a 
place and the forming of a nation for the 
reception of the “Christ idea.” 

In the preparation for the first demon¬ 
stration, the proving, through Jesus, that 
God, not Adam, is the Father of man, that 
Life not death is the source of being, in this 
first preparation, Moses lead out from Egypt 
a fear-filled multitude of ignorant, supersti¬ 
tious slaves who were continually rebelling 
against the unforeseen hardships of the wil¬ 
derness journey, and ever longingly looking 
back to the confining, narrowing servitude 
which at least had afforded them an assured 
shelter and abundant food. They fretted 
under the disciplinary measures of their in¬ 
spired leader; they resisted the experiences 
which were necessary to form them to be 
repositories of the Messianic teachings until 
the Messiah himself should come and Christ 
be proved to be “The everlasting Father,” Isa. 
the representative of divine Principle— 9:6 
eternal Life. By this first demonstration or 

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Hab. 

2:14 


coming of Christ, Adam’s claim to be father 
was disproved and relegated to mythology; 
his serpent tongue was shown to be a liar and 
its progeny lies. 

The second demonstration or “coming” 
involved the revelation of the Christ as the 
Mother or representative of the divine Prin¬ 
ciple of all conception, Love , thus destroying 
the claim of Adam that his Eve, or conceiv¬ 
ing organ, was the mother of all living and 
showing her to be only the other half of the 
same serpent, or liar. 

This latter revelation is final, apodictic. 
It brings “the promised Day of Israel,” when 
“the knowledge of the glory of the Lord” 

shall cover the earth “as the waters cover the 

_ __ >> 

sea. 

The “loyal ray” sped on. A new world 
must be discovered; a virgin consciousness 
be found. This time, not a narrow river, but 
a vast ocean is crossed. Not on dry land 
mercifully revealed to the timid, faltering 
Hebrews, but over a storm-tossed, angry sea 
in a tiny frail vessel, came the Spirit-driven 
Puritan-Separatists who ‘ ‘ confessed that they 
were strangers and Pilgrims on the earth.” 
Not to a country where their fathers had been 
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before them, and which was theirs and of 
which they knew from God that they needed 
only to take possession. No! these brave 
Puritan Pilgrims, unflinching seekers for 
freedom to worship God, came to an un¬ 
known, far-off land. They came*with stern 
resolve to establish a nation of God fearing, 
man loving people. They committed them¬ 
selves to the protection of an all-mericful 
Father whom they trusted without any 
sensible evidence of His special favor. Their 
spirituality enabled them to face every ob¬ 
stacle to progress. Instead of outward won¬ 
ders to awe them and terrify their enemies, 
they felt the mighty impulsion of spiritual 
aspiration. Their outward vision saw no 
pillar of cloud by day, nor of fire by night, 
but, upon the altar of their hearts, there 
burned, with lambent flame, a pure devotion 
to an impelling spiritual Cause. They knew 
that the Rock that followed them was Christ, 
although its substance was faith and as yet 
‘ ‘ unseen. ’ ’ Their hunger brought no honeyed 
manna nor wind-driven quail; they fed their 
famished hearts on the Word of God. The 
Bible which recounted the temptations and 
trials of their prototypes was their constant 
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handbook. When they stepped upon Ply¬ 
mouth Rock they, like Jacob, found the gate 
of heaven. No thundering voice from Sinai 
terrified this Pilgrim band. They heard, 
listented to, and obeyed the still, small voice 
of spiritual intuition. Hear these words 
from the Mayflower Compact: “In the name 
of God, Amen. ... for the better ordering 
and furtherance of our desired worship of God. 
Now we do covenant and combine ourselves 
that our governing in this new world may be 
by us and for us for the greatest good of all.” 

America! Thy ardent stars aspire! 

They shine resplendent; having pierced their way, 
They show the promised land where Christ shall 
slay 

The wily serpent’s brood. Here burns the fire 
Of liberty and hope that shall inspire 
To rise and overthrow the reign of clay. 
Manasseh’s Eagle soars. Behold the Day 
Desired of all. The despot’s fitful ire 
Flits out. Immortal sonship crowned of God 
Shall reign as King and priest in realm of Mind. 
With constitution sound and broad, a state 
Established firm in Truth, thy mighty rod 
Of potent Love shall chasten all mankind 
Until upon the Lord they learn to wait. 

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The “loyal ray’* sped on. The light of 
freedom dawned. The Declaration of Inde¬ 
pendence fulfilled in type, on the physical 
plane, the words of Moses: 

Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, Deut. 
and upon the top of the head of him that was 33 u6 
separated from his brethren . 

Then followed the Constitution of the 
United States, an interpretation of funda¬ 
mental law which laid the foundations for a 
pure democracy and hinted the brotherhood 
of man. The Monroe Doctrine published to 
the world that no interference from old effete 
systems of government would be tolerated by 
this young Republic. The Emancipation 
Proclamation was the last stroke of the hour 
that ushered in the second coming of Christ 
or the appearing of the “loyal ray” in its full 
reflection of Life and Love, the compound 
Principle. 

Mary Baker Eddy, in the year of our Lord 
1866, wrote Science and Health with Key to 
the Scriptures and became known as the 
Discoverer, Founder and Leader of Christian 
Science. 


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Eve was disproved and relegated to myth¬ 
ology. No longer can her response to Adam’s 
lying serpent be tolerated, nor her concep¬ 
tions be honored as man. They are already 
known to be lies, counterfeits of truth. 

The “loyal ray” now shines in the fulness 
of its complete nature. The Christ, having 
overcome the masculine human of Jesus and 
the feminine human of Mary Baker Eddy, is 
leading the children of spiritual Israel into 
the Promised Land of Truth and Love. 

From Science and Health with Key to the 
Scriptures , by Mary Baker Eddy, I quote: 

S.&H. The rights of man were vindicated in a single 
225 section and on the lowest plane of human life, 
when African slavery was abolished in our land. 
That was only prophetic of further steps towards 
the banishment of a world-wide slavery found 
on higher planes of existence and under more 
subtle and depraving forms. 

The voice of God in behalf of the African 
slave was still echoing in our land, when the 
voice of the herald of this new crusade sounded 
the keynote of universal freedom, asking a 
fuller acknowledgement of the rights of man as a 
Son of God, demanding that the fetters of sin, 
sickness, and death be stricken from the human 
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mind and that its freedom be won, not through 
human warfare, not with bayonet and blood, 
but through Christ’s divine Science. 

This new crusade is wholly mental. Its 
Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has called the 
citizens of the world to follow her in the war¬ 
fare against sin, disease, and death. She and 
her faithful followers are contending against 
the subtle forces hidden in the realm of carnal 
mind, which have caused all sin, all suffer¬ 
ing, all the horrible evil of mortal so-called 
existence. 

In the preceding crusades, those waged on 
the physical plane, only the outward phe¬ 
nomena of physical conditions have been 
dealt with, and, although the battle has been 
arduous, and brave men and women have 
given themselves and all they knew to the 
overthrow of oppression and the establish¬ 
ment of justice, mercy, and peace, yet not 
until thought was liberated and the secret 
workings of the mortal mental uncovered by 
the “loyal ray,” have the champions of Truth 
fully antagonized and fearlessly encountered 
the diabolical operations of hypnotism, mes¬ 
merism, and animal magnetism. 

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Our Leader’s faithful lieutenant has been 
her loyal student, Augusta E. Stetson. The 
words of Moses have for us a deeper mean¬ 
ing and we realize their spiritual import as 
applied to the Joseph of this hour. 

Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, 
and upon the top of the head of him that was 
separated from his brethren. 

The Bible is the inspired Word of God; it 
is the truth for time and eternity. The 
statements therein are made of the antitype , 
that which is represented by the type, al¬ 
though the types first appear in successive 
degrees of reality until the antitype itself 
fulfils the original statement. We see this 
exemplified in the story of Joseph who is the 
type of the chosen one of all the children of 
Israel, who is “separated from his brethren,” 
in order that he may store the precious grain 
of truth which must feed the brethren. 

America, Manasseh, as a subdivision of 
Joseph, holds a “separated” place among 
the nations. This is also true of England, 
Ephraim. When the two brothers, each in 
his degree, have fulfilled type, they will be 
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united, and together, as Joseph, will meet 
the nations’ need in furnishing the world 
with an example of pure democracy and a 
true republic. As is said of Joseph: 

His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, Deut. 
and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with 33:*7 
them he shall push the people together to the 
ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands 
of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of 
Manasseh. 

Then must this last type yield to its anti¬ 
type, to that which is represented by the 
type, and the whole world come to the true 
or spiritual Joseph, the favored son among 
many brethren, to obtain the wheat of God, 
the spiritual interpretation and teaching of 
Christian Science. 

There are indications of this “consumma¬ 
tion devoutly to be wished. ’ ’ The public press 
is carrying all over this country, Manasseh, 
the inspired writings of Augusta E. Stetson, 
the true Joseph antitype. In the men¬ 
tal pilgrimage she has planted her foot 
upon the Rock, Christ, on the shore of the 
New World of Mind’s creating. She has 
withstood all the arguments, all the aggres- 
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sive mental suggestions of the agents of carnal 
mind. She has fearlessly stood against the 
undertow of accepted dogma, creed, con¬ 
vention, and usage wherever these conflicted 
with revealed Truth and the spiritual teach¬ 
ings of Christian Science. She has made no 
concession to human opinion nor consulted 
personal expediency. She has been true to 
the impress her Leader and Teacher made 
upon her with the seal of Christ. Like 
Luther she could do no otherwise for God was 
her help and sure defence. 

Augusta E. Stetson can say with 
Mary Baker Eddy: 

And o’er earth’s troubled, angry sea 
I see Christ walk, 

And come to me, and tenderly, 

Divinely talk. 

Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock, 
Upon Life’s shore, [shock, 

Gainst which the winds and waves can 
Oh, nevermore! 


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PART III 


Metaphysical Exegesis 

When examined in the light of divine Science, 
mortals present more than is detected upon the 
surface, since inverted thoughts and erroneous 
beliefs must be counterfeits of Truth. Thought 
is borrowed from a higher source than matter, 
and by reversal, errors serve as waymarks to the 
one Mind, in which all errors disappear in 
celestial Truth. 

Science and Health With Key to The Scriptures 
By Mary Baker Eddy. 


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METAPHYSICAL EXEGESIS 

Have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in 
the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the 
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the 
God of Jacob. Mark 12 :26. 

Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. 

Exodus 20 : 3 . 

A LL Jacob’s twelve sons were bom before 
** the incident, recorded in Genesis 32, 
where as a consequence of his night-vigil 
and spiritual wrestling, his name was changed 
to Israel, Prince of God, indicative of his 
changed nature or of the supremacy of the 
spiritual nature over the carnal. We find, in 
these twelve children, subdivisions of Jacob’s 
dual nature. 

In Science and Healthy with Key to the 
Scriptures , in the chapter entitled Glossary, 
we find the analysis of Jacob and of his 
twelve sons, or subdivisions. 

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Reuben, Levi, Dan and Issachar appear 
only in thejftr^ degree—“depravity,” “physi¬ 
cal,” or “unreality.” In these children, 
Jacob subdivided only his animal, carnal, 
unreal selfhood. This, at that time, was 
strongly, definitely developed and there was 
formed, with the aid of Leah and Bilhah, strong, 
definite, persistent types of carnal or mortal 
mind. These concepts are wholly erroneous. 

They comprise not one redemptive quality; 
they belong entirely to error. Not one of the 
moral or transitional qualities, which Jacob 
possessed, went into the make-up of these 
concepts. 

Looking again at our table, we find nothing 
recorded after the names of Simeon, of Naph- 
tali, nor of Zebulon. It would seem from 
this that these concepts have faded out and 
left no distinct impress on human conscious¬ 
ness. 

Judah appears in the first degree, only 
quickly to progress, in the person of Jesus , 
into the second degree. 

Asher does not appear at all in the first 
degree. Evidently the physical or unreal 
was faintly impressed and he appears only in 
the transitional qualities. 

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S.&H. 

582 


Gad appears in neither the first nor second 
degrees. Consequently his individuality will 
be apprehended only in the final or third 
degree of translation: that is, no human 
concept of this divine idea obtains in mortal 
thought. 

Joseph and Benjamin are recorded in all 
three degrees. 

Now what light does this throw on the 
history of the twelve tribes ? 

Consulting our textbook, Science and 
Health , we read the definition of 

Children. The spiritual thoughts and repre¬ 
sentatives of Life, Truth, and Love. 

Sensual and mortal beliefs; counterfeits of 
creation, whose better originals are God’s 
thoughts, not in embryo, but in maturity; 
material suppositions of life, substance, and 
intelligence, opposed to the Science of being. 

In the human history, all these concepts, or 
human, corporeal beliefs, were intermingled 
so that, at the present hour, the twelve tribes 
and the individuals composing them are a 
composite of these qualities. Reuben, Levi, 
Dan and Issachar have transmitted their 
deadly mortal qualities which must be 

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entirely obliterated. Dan—animal magne¬ 
tism, etc.—has dominated the race; has 
pioneered for it; colonized for it; given his 
name and nature to it; that is, the Dan 
that Jacob y with the aid of Bijhah, his concu¬ 
bine, knew and projected into human con¬ 
sciousness. 

Animal magnetism and all the material 
Dan qualities are exemplified, personified in 
arrogant so-called Capital and in anarchistic, 
ignorant, brutal so-called Labor. 

Human energy has brought upon the world 
a towering superstructure of materialism, 
reared on the ever shifting volcanic founda¬ 
tion of capricious human will. 

Jesus said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of 
God and His righteousness.” This master- 
metaphysician well knew that every thing 
necessary and desirable to man is in this 
kingdom and can be found no where else. 

The animal quality of Dan is the magnet 
that draws to America from the old world 
the illiterate, ignorant, unruly element. The 
desire and effort to work out the designs of 
error—ambition, pride, hatred, revenge, envy 
—have imported and employed this low 
grade of immigrants. The Jews, with their 

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love of money, and Issachar, selfishness and 
lust, have co-operated with Dan in building 
up munition factories; in the wasteful, selfish 
development of coal mines; in the working of 
factories for the production of senseless 
luxuries; in the wanton creation and exciting 
of the animal appetites, both mental and 
physical, of the people; by moving pictures, 
sensational amusements, tobacco in all its 
forms to an inordinate, yes monstrous pro¬ 
portion; in the flooding of the country with 
degrading, even obscene journalism; with 
demoralizing theatres, operas, jazz, rodeos; 
but to enumerate the different forms of alien 
depreciation and degradation of American 
character would require more space than we 
are willing to give to foreign, alien influence. 

However, Levi yet remains to be exposed. 
It would be well to refer to the chart and 
there read what Levi as Jacob's son, not 
spiritual Israel’s conception of idea, is. 

Levi is spiritual wickedness in high places. 
It has dominated mankind by keeping it in 
ignorance of God and substituting a mag¬ 
nified mortal. Levi, by its priestcraft has 
instituted itself an intercessory mediator 
between mortals and a man projected God, 
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made after the fashion of unscrupulous 
priests. This poison virus has entered 
human consciousness and has been the 
channel through which Roman Catholicism 
has injected its pagan, anti-Christian influ¬ 
ence. Roman Catholicism through Levi and 
Issachar (selfishness and lust) has licensed, 
encouraged and incited sexual generation. 

"The denial of the fulness of God’s 
creation,” (Levi) has let into this country 
the worst element of the old world: supersti¬ 
tion, fear, priestcraft, false doctrine, heresy 
and schism, in fact all the Roman Catholic 
dogma and Jesuitical mental manipulation 
that has menaced our freedom to know and 
worship God. Through this open door, the 
acceptance of "mortal man” as the priest 
of God, have poured in all the corrupt 
religions of the old world: Mohammedanism 
Hindooism, Taoism, Theosophy,—all the 
modem Canaanites with their Baalim. 

Dan, animal, magnetism; Issachar, envy, 
hatred, selfishness, lust; Levi, ecclesiastical 
despotism and the acceptance of mortal 
man as priest of God; Reuben, that general 
quality of error which imposes the belief 
that sexual generation is any part of God’s 

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S.&H. 

3i3 


creation or necessary to present man to view; 
and the Jews with their Baal worship, the 
power of money; all these constitute mad 
ambition, personal pride, egotism, insane 
human will and brutal, domineering arro¬ 
gance. The phenomena of these carnal 
qualities are mistaken by poor deluded 
mortals for human progress, advanced civiliz¬ 
ation, achievements of science, when they are 
only the preposterous imposition of intoler¬ 
able burdens upon suffering humanity. 

To Jesus, “the most scientific man that 
ever trod the globe,” none of these things 
were necessary, and any one of them, if 
accepted by him, would have impeded his 
progress and prevented his triumph over the 
enemy, death and the grave. All the so- 
called achievements of error or “human will” 
must be laid aside as impedimenta, before 
the heights of Horeb can be attained, where 
man talks consciously with God. 

Every false presentation of man must be 
self-annihilated. The process of this anni¬ 
hilation is going on. It is the destruction, by 
the operation of Christ in individual and 
collective consciousness, of the carnal quali¬ 
ties and their phenomena. 

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The ‘ ‘ unreality ’ ’ and utter ‘ ‘ depravity ’ ’ of 
Jacob’s “physical” concepts of Reuben, Levi, 
Dan, and Issachar are being exposed and 
annulled. In their place will appear eventu¬ 
ally the spiritual individuality of the ante¬ 
cedent “reality”—the eternal ideas of God. 

In order to reveal Christ, the ideal man, 
the fulness of Israel, the complete number 
twelve must be realized. Those purely 
spiritual members of whom there seems, at 
present, to be no apprehension, must be 
apprehended, for without the spiritual quali¬ 
ties which Simeon, Naphtali and Zebulon 
represent there is something lacking which is 
necessary to the full stature of manhood in 
Christ. 

Incidentally we note that Jacob had one 
daughter. She , the feminine, is no where 
recorded,—neither in the first degree, physi¬ 
cal; in the second degree, moral; nor in the 
third degree, understanding. Does not this 
show that human consciousness cannot, 
never will, form an adequate conception of 
womanhood ? Love is a wholly spiritual 
consciousness and can reveal its idea only to 
the “pure in heart” who “see God ” and 
nothing else. 


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S.&H. 

589 


S.&H. 

480 


Jesus. The highest human corporeal con¬ 
cept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying 
error and bringing to light man’s immortality. 

Thus Science and Health defines Jesus who 
came out from Judah. “If there is no 
spiritual reflection, then there remains only 
the darkness of vacuity and not a trace of 
heavenly tints.” Only as those calling them¬ 
selves “of Judah” accept Jesus and with him 
come out from “the corporeal material 
belief” of Judah will they be recorded or 
have any identity. For Judah, as material 
belief, is recorded as “progressing and dis¬ 
appearing” therefore those “of Judah” who 
have not progressed out of Judaism have no 
record whatever. Only those, indeed, who 
take upon them the name of Christ are 
numbered with the twelve tribes. Otherwise 
they are ciphers and remain in “unreality,” 
“depravity,” and even there are unrecorded, 
nothing. 

The remnant of Judah which escaped with 
Jeremiah, from Jerusalem, by way of Egypt, 
Spain, Ireland, Scotland, to England, are 
found with Ten Tribed Israel, in England and 
America. 


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iffletapfjpatcal Cxegeste 


They early lost themselves as Jews and 
adopted Christianity with the rest of Israel. 

But this remnant contributes those mental 
qualities of greed and avarice in Israel, which, 
as yet undestroyed by Christ, Truth, Spirit, 
divine Love, has attracted to England and 
America a multitude of Jews, whose god is 
money. 

Judah rejected Christ. Christ now rejects 
Judah. The unchristianized Jew has no 
place in America, Christ’s country! The 
Jews, as Jews , will be driven out by Christ. 

They will be driven out from this country as 
they have been from other countries, because 
they have no place. They are not recorded 
in any one of the three degrees of the trans¬ 
lation of mortal mind, and can have no 
identity until they, with Jesus , progress out 
of Judaism and begin to demonstrate 
Christ, Truth. Then will they be counted 
with Israel as one of the Twelve Tribes. 

“No man can serve two masters: for either Matt, 
he will hate the one, and love the other; or 6:2 * 
else he will hold to the one, and despise the 
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’* 

The light of Christian Science is revealing 
Christ, Truth, in the full stature of God’s 

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John 

1:47 


S.&H. 

566 


image and likeness. This light has pene¬ 
trated the darkness of Judah and many Jews 
have come into the freedom of their true 
heritage of “Israelites, indeed, in whom is no 
guile.” There is but one way: 

As the children of Israel were guided triumph¬ 
antly through the Red Sea, the dark ebbing and 
flowing tides of human fear,—as they were led 
through the wilderness, walking wearily through 
the great desert of human hopes, and anticipating 
the promised joy,—so shall the spiritual idea 
guide all right desires in their passage from sense 
to Soul, from a material sense of existence to the 
spiritual, up to the glory prepared for them who 
love God. Stately Science pauses not, but 
moves before them, a pillar of cloud by day and 
of fire by night, leading to divine heights. 

Joseph holds the birthright—the ability 
to produce phenomena in every one of the 
three degrees, in the translation of mortal 
mind. The qualities of Joseph provide the 
human with what is necessary, while await¬ 
ing the full realization of man as the perfect 
idea of a perfect Principle. 

To Joseph must come all who need to be 
fed with the corn of Egypt, with the wheat of 


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progressing understanding or “With the 
eternal bread of God and royal wine.” 
(Augusta E. Stetson.) 

Benjamin was the light bearer to Judah, 
but Judah rejected the light and remained in 
the darkness of Judaism. Judah’s represen¬ 
tative, Jesus, demonstrated Truth, Christ, 
and thus proved himself to be the head and 
ruling member of the twelve tribes and of 
all creation. 

Christ bears the sceptre. 

The spiritual idea is crowned with twelve S.&H, 
stars. The twelve tribes of Israel with all 562 
mortals,—separated by belief from man’s divine 
origin and the true idea,—will through much 
tribulation yield to the activities of the divine 
Principle of man in the harmony of Science. 

These are the stars in the crown of rejoicing. 

They are the lamps in the spiritual heavens of 
the age, which show the workings of the spiritual 
idea by healing the sick and the sinning, and by 
manifesting the light which shines “unto the 
perfect day” as the night of materialism wanes. 

America, as Israel after the Spirit, is rising 
in spiritual might, is throwing off animal 
magnetism, the carnal Dan. She is revealing 
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S.&H. 

575 


the true spiritual Dan, the attraction of 
Spirit, which holds man inflexibly to “the 
polar magnet of Revelation.” Her reflection 
of this irresistible power will drive out of 
America and to their own place those who are 
not Israel, nor of Israel. To their own 
country they must return and leave Israel to 
keep her tryst with the God of Abraham, of 
Isaac and of Jacob. 

Then shall America verily be the Promised 
Land of all Israel; Christ shall say of it, Yes, 
I am King and my kingdom is of this world— 
this New World of spiritual Israel, from 
whence I shall reign over the nations with a 
rod of iron. 

Then are proved the words on page 583 
of Science and Health: 

Children of Israel. The representatives 
of Soul, not corporeal sense; the offspring of 
Spirit, who, having wrestled with error, sin, 
and sense, are governed by divine Science; some 
of the ideas of God beheld as men, casting out 
error and healing the sick; Christ’s offspring. 

Also on page 309: 

The result of Jacob’s struggle thus appeared. 
He had conquered material error with the under- 
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standing of Spirit and of spiritual power. This 
changed the man. He was no longer called 
Jacob, but Israel,—a prince of God, or a soldier 
of God, who had fought a good fight. He was to 
become the father of those, who through earnest 
striving followed his demonstration of the power 
of Spirit over the material senses; and the 
children of earth who follow his example were to 
be called the children of Israel, until the Messiah 
should rename them. 

John says in Revelation: 

After these things I saw four angels standing Rev. 
on the four corners of the earth, holding the 
four winds of the earth, that the winds should not 
blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any 
tree. 

And I saw another angel ascending from the 
east, having the seal of the living God: and he 
cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to 
whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 
saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor 
the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our 
God in their foreheads. 

And I heard the number of them which were 
sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and 
forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the 
children of Israel. 


105 


S.&H. 

106 


Hfecael, prince of <®ob 

Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve 
thousand. 

Of the tribe of Rueben were sealed twelve 
thousand. 

Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve 

thousand. 

Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve 

thousand. 

Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve 
thousand. 

Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve 
thousand. 

Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve 
thousand. 

Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve 

thousand. 

Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve 
thousand. 

Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve 
thousand. 

Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve 
thousand. 

Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve 
thousand. 


Pure theocracy, which is divine democracy, 
for “Man is properly self-governed only 
when he is guided rightly and governed 
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by his Maker, divine Truth and Love,” 
will be, is already established in America. 

None but the citizens of this spiritual 
kingdom where there is but “One God, One 
Law, Divine Democracy, universal Brother¬ 
hood ” 1 shall be found in America. In 
America, shall Christ reign over “all Israel,” 
over those who have been sealed in their fore¬ 
heads with the understanding that “Spirit is 
infinite; therefore Spirit is all .” 2 

Then the Revelator on beholding this 
consummation exclaims: 

AFTER THIS I beheld, and, lo, a great 
multitude, which no man could number, of all 
nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, 
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, 
clothed with white robes, and palms in their 
hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Sal¬ 
vation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, 
and unto the Lamb. 

And he carried me away in the spirit to a great 
and high mountain, and shewed me that great 
city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of 
heaven from God, having the glory of God: and 

1 Augusta E. Stetson. 

2 The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany , 
p. 357. By Mary Baker Eddy. 

107 


Rev. 
7:9, 10 


Rev. 

21:10- 

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her light was like unto a stone most precious, 
even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; and 
had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, 
and at the gates twelve angels, and names written 
thereon, which are the names of the TWELVE 
TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 


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ISRAEL, PRINCE OF GOD 


BY 

SIBYL MARVIN HTJSE 

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If names indicate at all the character, certainly we 
should find an interesting person in the bearer of these 
three rather uncommon names. 

Sibyl means the truth-teller, the prophetess, the oracle; 
and Miss Huse has justified her first name, in the subjects 
that she has chosen to write upon, all biblical in their 
nature. 

“Reynold Marvin,” said Miss Huse, in an interview 
I had the pleasure of having with her at her home, 
“came from Great Bentley, England, in 1635 , and settled 
near Hartford, Connecticut. Selden Marvin, the sixth 
generation in this country, moved to Fairfield, Herkimer 
County, New York State. His daughter, Sibyl Marvin 
(Pinckney) was my maternal grandmother, a most beauti¬ 
ful and gracious woman, who all through my childhood 
and young womanhood, was the object of my love and 
admiration. Her brother Richard Marvin was a member 
of Congress, 1836 - 38 ; assisted in amending the Constitu¬ 
tion of New York State; was Justice of the New York 
Supreme Court, sitting on the bench twenty-four years, 
two years as Justice in the Court of Appeals. Judge 
William Marvin, another brother, was appointed governor 
of Florida by President Johnson and was elected from that 
State as United States Senator. His work on ‘Law of 







Wrecks and Salvage,’ and his rulings and findings, are 
recognized as highest authority. He drew up the Con¬ 
stitution of Florida, in the difficult Reconstruction period, 
for, although a Northern man, and an ardent Unionist, 
he was almost adored by Floridians for his high Christian 
character. 

“My mother, Harriet Pinckney Huse, shines in my 
memory as a beautiful and noble woman, whose culture 
and elegance of speech seem still to linger in my thought, 
as a haunting melody. 

“In the Roll of Battle Abbey, we find the names of I. 
de la Huse and R. de la Huse, who came to England from 
Normandy with William the Conqueror, and fought in 
the Battle of Hastings, 1066. Abel Huse, the first of the 
name in this country, came from Berkshire, England, and 
settled, 1635, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. My father, 
Caleb Huse, left Newburyport as a lad of sixteen to enter 
the Military Academy at West Point, where, the youngest 
of a large class, he graduated (1851) the seventh, the six 
men above him being accounted the most brilliant the 
Academy had graduated up to that time. 

“While second lieutenant, he was instructor at West 
Point seven years, part of the time acting professor in 
full charge of the department of chemistry, mineralogy, 
and geology. It might be of interest to record that the 
famous painter, James Whistler, was under my father’s 
instruction, while a cadet at West Point. In later life my 
father established a school at Highland Falls, New York, 
a mile south of West Point, his Alma Mater. Here many 
young men were prepared to enter the Army, the Navy, 
and the various branches of professional and business life. 
Among his boys, as he fondly called them, I might mention 
John J. Pershing, America’s pride; Peyton C. March, 
without whose skillful cooperation at Washington, General 
Pershing would have been crippled in his marvellous con- 


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structive work in France; General Gaillard, whose en¬ 
gineering genius has given his name to one of the Panama 
Canal cuts; Edgar Jadwin and Henry Jervey, who add 
lustre to the Army’s roll call of brilliant Colonels of en¬ 
gineers; David Shanks, who as Brigadier General, was in 
charge of the department of the port of New York Harbor, 
during the late war. 

“The name of Henry D. Steers, as contracting engineer, 
is familiar along the whole Atlantic seaboard. Fred Bonfils, 
of Denver, editor and well known newspaper man through 
the west, is another of ‘our boys.’ And to come back to 
New York, Hope Norton, financier and broker, whose 
name is so closely linked with the history of the develop¬ 
ment of modern Ecuador, through his connection with the 
construction and operation of the Guayaquil and Quito 
Railroad, of which he was for several years president. 
These, and many, many more generals, lawyers, doctors, 
writers, and business men, in all walks of life, can tell you 
of ‘splendid old Caleb,’ as General Pershing is quoted as 
calling my father. 

“We have, as a family, all been educators. My oldest 
brother, Reginald, taught ancient and modern languages 
at St. Paul’s School, Garden City, in his father’s school at 
Highland Falls, in the University of the South, Sew r anee, 
Tennessee, at Lehigh University, and later had his own 
school. 

“My brother Guy held the unique position of instructor 
of French, while still a cadet at West Point, wearing a 
double quota of bell-buttons to distinguish him from his 
classmates. 

“My brother Harry was so highly held as a teacher in 
the Navy, that always, when on shore, he was assigned to 
the Naval Academy at Annapolis, until his high rank made 
it improper. In the Spanish war, his gallant conduct won 
for him many files of promotion. After our brush with 


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ill the house, and his letters added the personal touch of 
interest. I have volumes of his writings on Bible interpre¬ 
tation, relating to the Tribes of Israel, inscribed to mem¬ 
bers of my family, signed with his own name. We knew 
of his self-abnegating devotion to the cause he so dearly 
loved,—Anglo-Israel Identity,—and we did what we could 
to encourage him and hold up his hands. ” 

Miss Huse’s parents were thorough Bible scholars, and 
in her childhood days she often heard discussions at home 
regarding the meaning of passages in the Old and New 
Testaments. Therefore the subject matter of her latest 
work has been close to her thought from her earliest days 
and is the fruit of life-long study, begun during her forma¬ 
tive period. 

Her latest book, just issued by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, is 
entitled, “Israel, Prince of God.” In a few pages, we are 
given a clear, rapid sketch of the formation, rise and dis¬ 
persion of the Houses of Judah and Israel. 

“ The first part of the book,” continued Miss Huse, “ is 
little more than a paraphrase of Professor Totten’s presen¬ 
tation of the subject. I have sought to cull out from his 
elaborated recital striking statements. These I have 
arranged, in chronological order, stripped of many details 
which, although interesting and important, sometimes 
encumber the narrative and confuse the reader.” 

The history is followed through the Bible account, 
where the House of Israel seems to end. The subsequent 
history of the House of Judah, or the Jews, is well known. 
At the point where the House of Israel disappears to his¬ 
tory, this volume, “Israel, Prince of God,” gathers up the 
lost threads, as they have been found by such students as 
Lieutenant Charles A. L. Totten, Professor Piazzi Smyth, 
and many more authorities on the identity of the House of 
Israel with the Anglo-Saxon Race , as represented in Eng¬ 
land and America. 







Mexico, in 1914, Congress passed a vote of thanks to my 
brother for action at Vera Cruz. During the Great War, 
he was on duty at Washington, and later was sent to 
Europe as Vice-Admiral. In 1923, he was retired as 
Rear Admiral, after as long service as is possible in our 
Navy, for he, like his father, was the youngest of his class, 
1878. 

“My youngest brother, Robert, prepared boys older 
than himself for college, and while at the Columbia Law 
School, suspended his study of law, in order to accompany 
a family to Europe, where he prepared three young men 
for college, one for Princeton, one for Harvard, and one 
for Troy. Then after a year’s absence, he returned to 
Columbia, and, by intensive work, was able to take his 
degree with his former class. 

“It was in this academic atmosphere that my four 
sisters and I, all of us teachers in one line or another, grew 
up. Let me mention one other member of this community- 
family, that lived at the Rocks, as our home was called, 
from the rock and boulder formation of the Hudson River 
bluff on which the house stood; this highly prized and 
much loved inmate was my mother’s sister, Dora Pinckney, 
who, with her mother, Sibyl Marvin Pinckney, always 
made her home with us. 

“I recall the vivid talks, the ardent discussions we 
would all have about the prophecies of Christ’s second 
coming. Many times my grandmother would say to me, 
her name child, ‘You, my child, will see the coming of 
Christ.’ 

“Then came into our hands the writings of Lieutenant 
Charles A. L. Totten, the now well-known commentator 
on Bible prophecy, and author of ‘The Our Race Series/ 
Oh! what wonderful times we used to have over each new 
volume as it came, each new pamphlet or leaflet, as the 
mail would bring it. Mr. Totten became a friend, a visitor 




































































